Re: v2.19.82 documentation unusable?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2018-11-23 4:42 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> I am curious then as to why it all works fine for me and presumably 
> others?
>
> Sounds like a Mac font problem to me, given my other current experience
> with Alegreya, as initially raised by Kieren.
>
> Or has 2.19.82 been rebuilt since I downloaded it some time ago?
>
> I may be wrong!

Just checked, and the PDFs on the site have not been changed and are 
still broken.

If your PDF viewer is able to locate and use the fonts that LilyPond 
contains within its installation and/or you have those fonts installed, 
then it'll seem to work for you.  For instance, I tried manually 
installing one of the Emmentaler fonts and some of the notation rendered 
as expected.

But the PDFs definitely do not have the fonts embedded, so they *should* 
be broken for nearly all users, since it would be uncommon to have the 
notation fonts installed.  And considering the notation fonts change 
from release to release, it does not make sense to ever have them 
installed.  A PDF for a particular version of LilyPond should reflect 
the state of the fonts at that point in time, not try to use whatever 
version the user might have installed.  Hence why font embedding is so 
important.

-- Aaron Hill