Re: Install LilyBoulez or other alternative fonts on Ubuntu

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno dom 25 giu 2017 alle 20:49, Malte Meyn 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Am 25.06.2017 um 20:45 schrieb Remy CLAVERIE:
> > I think that you have to donwload the fonts into the '.fonts' 
> > directory of your home (beware to the 's' at the end of the name). 
> > If it does'nt exist, you must create it. Then, run the 'fc-cache -v- 
> > -f' and all the new fonts should be available for all the software, 
> > including libreoffice.
>
> LilyPond looks for music fonts in it’s own font directory, 
> something like XXX/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf, 
> where XXX is /usr/local or ~ or something similar (Maybe it’s a bit 
> different when installed via the package manager, perhaps 
> /usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf).
>
> _______________________________________________

This is not the best advice, if Luca is using version 2.19.
As of version 2.19.12, there's no need to copy the fonts in lilypond 
install directory. You place them once in your system-wide fonts 
directory and then use the new syntax to make sure lilypond can find 
the fonts.

The problem is that it's not documented yet in the official manuals:
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5137/
http://lilypondblog.org/2015/03/managing-alternative-fonts-with-lilypond/