Re: fonts on windows

[David M. Boothe, CAS]

Also, be sure you are using the font name exactly as the system knows
it. To find out, click on the font in the Font Settings window.
Properly installed fonts will show you the  metadata. In your Lilypond
code, specify the font name exactly as it is in the "Full Name" field
of the metadata. That is not always the same as the way it is listed
in a font list

For example, on my system, I have a full installation of Cormorant,
which has 9 variants. Although it lists in the Settings simply as
Cormorant, if I want the main type (no bold or italic, etc.) I see
that the regular version is called Cormorant Regular.

Hope this helps.

dB


On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:37 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:
>
> Hello Elaine,
>
> While I cannot say anything for sure (lacking a Windows system) I guess the
> fonts are installed in some folder in your user directory that is not part of
> the fontconfig font path. The system location for fonts on windows is C:
> \Windows\Fonts. Try to copy your font files directly into this directory.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin
>
> Am Samstag, 15. Jänner 2022, 01:19:18 CET schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm setting up an new lilypond environment
> > on a surface pro running windows 10
> > using VSCode as an editor,
> > and cygwin as a terminal.
> >
> > I am not able to get lilypond to use my fonts yet.
> >
> > I was able to install them in windows itself,
> > since I can see them in the windows Fonts Settings.
> >
> > To do this, I did some dragging & dropping,
> > and some using "right-click > install" in the file navigator.
> >
> > But when I compile my lilypond files,
> > the resulting files do not use the fonts.
> >
> > When I run "lilypond -dshow-available-fonts",
> > while it does list numerous fonts,
> > it does not list the fonts I installed.
> >
> > Specifically, I am using "Highlander ITC TT"
> > for chord symbols.
> > This is how I specify it, and this works on my other systems:
> >
> >   #(define fonts
> >     (make-pango-font-tree "Marker Felt"
> >                           "Highlander ITC TT"
> >                           "LilyJAZZText"
> >                            (/ myStaffSize 20)))
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get lilypond to find these
> > fonts?
> >
> > FWIW, I'm running 2.23.2 on this machine, but I'm on 2.19.81 on my other
> > machines.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Elaine Alt
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> > elaine@flaminghakama.com
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