Re: Ask about the lyric of Lilypond

[Simon Albrecht]

On 20.03.2016 14:21, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> you should install the font in such a way that fontconfig can find it, 
> but how that works depends on your platform (windows, osx, linux) and 
> which lilypond version you use.
>
> I've added the list which should be able to help you further.

Just for the record: I already gave a solution, which worked for the OP.
Best, Simon

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 5:10 AM 15221328968 <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Mr. Han Wen:
>              I am a university student in China and I am interested in
>     making music score by using computer. Recently I have found the
>     lilypond which is created by you and your fellow workers. The
>     lilypond is fantastic! It is easier to make some sheet music.
>     However, I have found a problem. I have read the mannual of
>     lilypond but I haven't found the solution. So now I am trying to
>     make the stave with guqin lyric.(Guqin is a traditional Chinese
>     ancient instrument, and it uses different characters as its
>     lyric->e.g.
>     )  I made a ttf font by myself to display these characters. So in
>     lilypond I use \addlyrics command, and type these characters in
>     it. The problem is when I converted the ly file into pdf file.
>     These characters cannot be displayed. I know that English and
>     Chinese words can be displayed as lyric. So I guess that maybe
>     there is some configuration files where I can let the lilypond
>     find the ttf font made by myself. But I don't know how to do that.
>              That's the reason why I emailed you and I hope that you
>     could give me some suggestion about how to solve this problem if
>     you are free. I am looking forward to your reply. Thanks!
>
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