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Re: Music fonts in local directory
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Urs Liska |
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Re: Music fonts in local directory |
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Mon, 10 Jul 2017 06:53:32 +0200 |
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Am 10. Juli 2017 04:29:35 MESZ schrieb David Bellows <address@hidden>:
>I fear I already know the answer to this question but I thought I'd try
>anyway.
>
>I have a project that generates music and sheet music using Lilypond.
>I want to allow the user to use any music font they want (the free
>music fonts). But I want to keep things as simple as possible. So I
>don't want for them to have to figure out how to install the music
>fonts into the standard places that Lilypond looks for them.
>
>Instead I'd love for them to be able to download my software and keep
>those music fonts in a subdirectory of my project and for Lilypond to
>be able to find them.
>
>I've experimented a lot with this and cannot get anything to work. And
>based on what I've read I don't think it is possible, but I'm hoping
>this isn't the case. I really don't want to have to deal with making
>people install these fonts when it feels like I can just include them
>with my project.
>
>Thanks,
>Dave Bellows
If your software is able to determine the lilypond installation directory it
could create the appropriate symlinks.
Apart from that I think I recall someone wrote you can add the font directory
to LilyPond's include path.
HTH
Urs
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