Re: Setting default text font

[Ben]

On 12/6/2017 3:25 PM, Chris Jones wrote:

I am unsuccessfully trying to globally change the default text font that
is lilypond uses in its pdf output (title of the song, lyrics, etc.

|
|  \paper  {
|    #(define fonts
|      (make-pango-font-tree "TeXGyreSchola"
|                            "TeXGyreHeros"
|                            "Terminus"
|  }

Whichever font(s) I specify I am still getting the same font. At
a glance, it looks like Microsoft's "Times New Roman", which is not
suited to my purpose.

This being on a linux system (debian stable) I have checked via
"fc-match TeXGyreSchola" commands (etc.) that the font(s) I specified
is(are) correctly recognized by fontconfig and that they are not
substituted.

Hi CJ,

The code below should work on Linux, it does for me on Mint 18.

\version "2.19.80"

\paper  {
  #(define fonts
    (make-pango-font-tree "TeXGyreSchola"
                          "TeXGyreHeros"
                          "Terminus"
                          (/ staff-height pt 20)))
}


Can you show a screenshot of how it looks in your system?