Re: question about fontsize lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

I cannot repeat the problem on my Linux machine, but I do get the same 
problem
when I use my Windows installation. The problem is clearly related to 
so-called
ligatures, which means that well-designed fonts have special symbols for 
character
combinations like "ff", "fl" and "fi". For some reason, LilyPond (or 
probably the
font handling library Pango used in LilyPond) gets the impression that 
your font
has a ligature for "ft", which it in fact doesn't.

I send a copy to the bug-lilypond mailing list, but I'm not sure if it's 
LilyPond's fault.

  /Mats

Lieke van der Meer wrote:
> Thank you Mats, I succeeded, but.... there seems to be a strange error 
> when creating a PDF file.
>
> The text 'heeft' turns into something like hee@, check with:
>
> melody = \relative c' {
> \clef treble
> \key g \major
> \repeat volta 2 {
> \time 4/4
> b'4
> }
> }
> text = \lyricmode {
> \override Score . LyricText #'font-name = "Palatino Linotype"
> {
> Heeft
> }}
> \score{
> <<
> \new Voice = "one" {
>
> \autoBeamOff
> \melody
> }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \text
> > >
> \layout { }
> }
>
> What can I do about that? It seems to happen only with the combination 
> 'ft'...
> Regards,
> Lieke
>
> > From: Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>
> > To: Lieke van der Meer <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: question about fontsize lyrics
> > Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:31:14 +0200
> >
> > You are definitely on the right track. Try
> > text = \lyricmode
> > {
> > \override Score . LyricText #'font-name = "Vera Bold"
> > \override Score . LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic
> > Glo- ri- a, ...
> >
> > However, at least on my system, there is no italic version of Vera Bold.
> > For the font size, the manual tells that the font-size property is 
> > given relative
> > to the value of the paper variable text-font-size, but it doesn't 
> > tell how this is
> > set by default. By looking at the implementation, I found out that 
> > the default
> > value of text-font-size is 12pt for the default 20pt staff size and 
> > in general
> > 12 / 20 * staff size.
> >
> >   /Mats
> >
> > Lieke van der Meer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > A week ago I started using Lilypond. So far it seems to have 
> > > fabulous possibilities. I only have one simple question.
> > > I want to change the fontsize & fonttype of the lyrics in my file, 
> > > but can't find a way to do so. I will ad an example of one of my files.
> > > Please tell me how to change these to (preferably) Palatino 
> > > Linotype, 14pt.
> > > Thanx
> > >
> > >
> > > \paper {
> > >  #(set-paper-size "a4")
> > > #(set-global-staff-size 10)
> > > left-margin = 15\mm
> > > line-width = #150
> > > system-count = 2
> > > }
> > > \layout {
> > >  indent = #0
> > > }
> > > melody = \relative c'
> > > {
> > > \clef treble
> > > \key f \major
> > > \repeat volta 2
> > > {
> > > \time 6/8
> > > a'8( g) a bes4. g8( f) g a4. \bar "||" d,4 d8 g8( a) bes c4. a \bar 
> > > "||"
> > > a8( d) c bes4. g8( c) bes a4. \bar "||" f8 e f g4. e8 d e f4.
> > > }
> > > }
> > > text = \lyricmode
> > > \override Score . LyricText #'font-name . "Vera Bold" #'font-shape = 
> > > #'italic
> > >
> > > {
> > > Glo- ri- a, glo- ri- a, in ex- cel- sis De- o!
> > > Glo- ri- a, glo- ri- a, al- le- lu- ia, al- le- lu- ia!
> > > }
> > > \score
> > > {
> > > <<
> > > \new Voice = "one"
> > > {
> > >
> > > \autoBeamOff
> > > \melody
> > > }
> > > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \text
> > > > >
> > > \layout { }
> > > \midi { \tempo 4=67 }
> > > }
> > >
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        Mats Bengtsson
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        Signals, Sensors and Systems
        Royal Institute of Technology
        SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
        Sweden
        Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
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