Re: External fonts on MacOS

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Han-Wen Nienhuys on Saturday, November 05, 2005 at 00:32:11 +0100:
>
> > If you want to use TeX, be my guest; there still is a TeX backend,
> >
> >  lilypond -b tex  foo.ly
> >
> > which uses TeX to get exact metrics.
>
>
> Ok. I got 2.7.15 compiled and it works (choking on the copyright
> sign but I eliminated that from the .tex file). lilypond.map is
> not created/installed though; there's a link from dvips/map to
> ../fonts/map but fonts/map is not created.
>
> lilypond-book does not work yet. Or I don't know which parameter
> to pass that corresponds to -b tex.

If you run lilypond-book -V you can see how lily is invoked. Your first 
target should making something so the output of

  lilypond -b tex lily-437829.ly

is ready to be included in a TeX file.  If you've got that working, you 
can use the --process  flag of lp-book to pass appropriate flags to 
LilyPond.

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