Re: (Not) mentioning that URW fonts are distributetd with LilyPond

[Matthias Kilian]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 09:36:24PM +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/font-families
> > 
> > still claims that LilyPond still includes URW fonts, which it doesn't
> > since 2.24.
> 
> It does — otherwise, they could not be set as the default fonts.
> 
> If you're thinking about the change mentioned
> on 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/index.html#notes-for-source-compilation-and-packagers
>  , it only means that LilyPond's build system will not take care of installing
> text fonts by itself anymore.

Thanks.

> Redistributors need to do that by themselves
> (which they probably already wanted to do, for deduplication between 
> packages).
> In this way of thinking, the scripts that generate the binaries distributed on
> lilypond.org are a "redistributor", and indeed they do package the fonts.

I think I'll just add the URW fonts to the lilypond package for now
(doing an update of it for OpenBSD).

Ciao,
        Kili