Re: OTF text font family with optical sizes : unable to access regular font

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-10-27 8:50 am, Daniel Tobias Johansen Langhoff wrote:
> Hi
>
> I’m having an issue using the Arno Pro typeface as a text font in
> LilyPond. When trying to use the regular font of the regular optical
> size, "Arno Pro Caption" is being substituted, as confirmed by
> pdffonts. Italic works as expected (as well as bold), and I can
> explicitly specify any other font of the family, like "Arno Pro Smbd
> Display". This bug is not happening with Garamond Premier Pro.
>
> I’m running LilyPond 2.20.0 on Ubuntu 20.04. I’ll happily provide more
> information on request. First time posting to any mailing list, so I
> hope I’m doing this correctly.
>
> $ cat minimal.ly
> \paper {
>   #(define fonts
>     (set-global-fonts
>      #:roman "Arno Pro"
>     ))
> }
>
> \markup {
>   "Regular" \italic "Italic"
> }
> $ pdffonts minimal.ly
> name                                 type              encoding
>  emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ -----------------
> ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
> LMLSAN+ArnoPro-Caption               Type 1C           Custom
>  yes yes yes      8  0
> DARGUI+ArnoPro-Italic                Type 1C           WinAnsi
>  yes yes no      11  0

Pango/font-config can do unexpected things when looking up fonts in 
larger families, especially those with non-standard naming conventions.

As I do not have access to that proprietary font family for local 
testing, I cannot be certain this will work.  But try using "Arno Pro," 
or "Arno Pro Regular," as the font name.  Note the intentional trailing 
commas there.


-- Aaron Hill