Possible bug, attempting to use non-latin characters in verse

[Colin Jesse Kinlund]

Hi LilyPonders, I have a possible bug I’m trying to work around/figure out. I have a number of Georgian songs where I’ve set a latin transliteration as “verse 1” and the Georgian alphabet for “verse 2”.

With Lilypond 2.18.2 (or 2.19.20) on OS X 10.10.3, compiling now fails with the error “warning: `(fondu -force /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont)' failed (5)). This used to work in Lilypond 2.16 just fine. Overriding the entire document to use Helvetica Neue also fails. Overriding everything to use Arial Unicode MS works, but 1) yuck, and 2) I shouldn’t need to do any of that. If I do nasty hacks like moving Helvetica out of place, it will compile using some other random font that contains Georgian characters, but I want to have control over what’s being chosen (or not chosen, in this case).

Anyone have experience setting non-latin texts, explicitly choosing the non-latin font to use, and whether you’re hitting this issue?

Here’s my condensed (failing) example:

\version "2.18.2"

firstVoice = \lyricmode {

I -- av -- na -- na, }

pirveliEkhma = \lyricmode {

ი -- ავ -- ნა -- ნა, }

melody = \relative c'' {

\time 5/4 c4 d e e8( d4.)}

\score {

\new ChoirStaff

<< 

\new Voice = "pirveli"

{ \melody }

\new Lyrics

\lyricsto "melody"

{ \firstVoice }

\new Lyrics

\lyricsto "melody"

{ \pirveliEkhma }

>>

}