Re: Half a \prall

[Hans Aberg]

On 17 Sep 2007, at 14:32, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> > Yes, that is the idea - I am using UTF-8 files in Xcode (Mac OS X  
> > 10.4.10). I have also found a Unicode font Euterpe that does it  
> > correctly:
> >   http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Eimai/191
> >
> > I also found (replies in the Unicode mailing list) some other  
> > Unicode fonts, but U+1D19D is designed wrongly, as a Pralltriller,  
> > instead of having only on peak and valley:
> >   http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/music.html
> >   http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
> >   http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/math.html
> >   http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/musical_symbols
> > Cf.
> >   http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
> >   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
> >
> > They have many other useful musical symbols, though.
> >
> > So the question is how to choose musical symbols selectively from  
> > different fonts, and the make say ornament symbols from that.
> In general, the font handling library used in LilyPond will try to  
> find a matching font
> that contains the symbol. Otherwise you can specify the font-name  
> explicitly, for example
> using a \markup{...} as shown in section "Font selection", at least  
> as the font works with
> Unicode.

I got this working, using the variations
  fis16^\markup {...}
  cis^\markup {\override #'(font-name . "Euterpe") {...}}
where "..." is U+1D19D encoded as UTF-8 in the source-file.

However, I noticed what seems to be a bug in in the LilyPond 2.11.28  
distribution for Mac OS X 10.4.8:

It does not work if the font is installed in the Font Book as User,  
which is the default for user installed fonts. It must be installed a  
Computer, and dropped onto this icon. Then the font ends up in / 
Library/Fonts/, which is one of the LilyPond search places. If  
installed as User, the font ends up in ~/Library/Fonts/, which  
LilyPond (or the PS to PDF conversion tool) does not search.

  Hans Åberg