Re: Planned font-related changes

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le samedi 15 avril 2023 à 01:16 +0200, Jean Abou Samra a écrit :

> After this, I expect two more MRs:
> 
> - One to use a separate FcConfig for Emmentaler, to fix #6485,
> - One to also use Fontconfig for Open_type_fonts, making their selection the 
> same as Pango fonts, which should address #6486. It will make using custom 
> music fonts possible with `#(ly:font-config-add-directory "/path/to/fonts")` 
> just like you can already do with text fonts.


For the second point, there is now a proof of concept: 
[!1957](https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1957). This needs 
a bit of love, and especially the handling of the case where the font can't be 
found is tricky; I would appreciate input there.

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