Re: Chordmode breaks in 2.10 and 2.11

[Brett Duncan]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> I looked at the .ps file that Brett sent me, and couldn't notice 
> anything strange
> there. The problems seems somehow to be related to the Verdana TrueType
> font that's used for the chord names, but I don't understand why your 
> Ghostscript
> (which should be the one included in the LilyPond distribution) fails 
> to handle it.
> Over here, there are no problems to convert your PS file to PDF.
>
>   /Mats
Thanks for looking at this, Mats.

I am completely baffled by this problem. I've checked all the instances 
of the Verdana font I can find on my laptop, and they all check out 
okay. Maybe there's another instance of the font somewhere I can't find. 
I thought maybe the wrong version of GS was being triggered, but running 
with --verbose shows that GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.56 
(2006-05-20) is the version called. And when I tried using ps2pdf 
directly to process the .ps file, it choked - "invalid font in 
--glyphshow--".

I think I'll give up at this point. :-(

So let's try something else. Is there a way to specify a sans serif font 
other than Verdana for ChordNames? If not, I guess I'll stick to Roman 
for the chord names.

Thanks,

Brett