[Lilypond-auto] [LilyIssues-auto] [testlilyissues:issues] #4966 the font name is Emmentaler, while Feta and Parmesan are two subsets of glyphs

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@Federico, can you check this is good enough to close this tracker or if we need to do anything more (with regard to the other 3 points).

Thanks

James

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[issues:#4966] the font name is Emmentaler, while Feta and Parmesan are two subsets of glyphs

Status: Started
Created: Sun Sep 04, 2016 03:59 PM UTC by Federico Bruni
Last Updated: Fri Mar 10, 2017 09:20 AM UTC
Owner: pkx166h

This has been reported several times:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-11/msg00594.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2016-07/msg00196.html

Here's the summary made by Abraham. I highlighted point 4, since it would require a change in the source code:

1. There is no "Feta" font. It's called "Emmentaler", but it consists of
   two sub-sets of glyphs: "Feta" (the classical notation glyphs) and
   "Parmesan" (the ancient notation glyphs).

2. Since Emmentaler comes in 8 different optical sizes, the commands to
   load them only require the root name "emmentaler" to load them all.

3. The fonts are located, not in the system's font directory(s), but in the
   program's own font folder, typically
   "[LilyPondDir]/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/".

4. To use Emmentaler (or whichever is the main font, if using an
alternative) for a grob that supports the font-interface, it can be set via
the 'font-family property, but the value isn't 'emmentaler, it's 'feta
(sigh). It's a shorter name, which is nice, but it isn't technically
accurate.

1. In a \markup, the fonts can be accessed directly with the real font
   name, like "emmentaler-23".

2. In the NR, section A.8 is entitled "The Feta font", but the opening line
   starts out with "The following symbols are available in the Emmentaler
   font..."

In other words, there's some inconsistency floating around.

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