Re: Issue 486 in lilypond: chord fonts in OSX

[Hans Aberg]

On 1 Oct 2007, at 04:20, address@hidden wrote:

> Issue 486: chord fonts in OSX
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=486
>
> Comment #2 by hanwenn:
> Hi,
> fondu failed. Can you post the output of
> fondu -force '/Library/Fonts/Verdana'

I am not sur to whom this is addressed, but:

I get the output below (Mac OS 10.4.10 PPC G4).

I think this was discussed, and it then looked like a problem with  
'fondu'. But now it looks like a problem with the font Verdana. If I  
look into the /Library/Fonts/, Verdana does not have any file name  
extension. By contrast, /System/Library/Fonts/, the name is  
Helvetica.dfont, a fondu works with Helvetica (modulo that the  
accidentals are not printed). So it seems that fondu can handle some  
font formats that Mac OS X can handle, but not all.

For me, it would suffice to use fonts like Helvetica and Times, and  
get the accidentals printed. According to <http://en.wikipedia.org/ 
wiki/Verdana>, Verdana is designed to be readable on computer screens  
with low resolution. So it does not seem to be font suitable for a  
typesetting system like Lilypond.

So, in view of that, and other problems with Verdana [loc.cit.], I  
think it is probably not worth the effort getting Verdana working wit  
fondu.

  Hans Åberg


$ lilypond ChordNames.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.11.33
Processing `ChordNames.ly'
Parsing...
ChordNames.ly:0: warning: : no \version statement found, please add

\version "2.11.33"

for future compatibility
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `ChordNames.ps'...
`cd /var/tmp/tmp.0.JqnQFc && fondu -force '/Library/Fonts/Verdana''  
failed (256)
programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static  
scm_unused_struct* Prob::mark_smob(scm_unused_struct*)
continuing, cross fingers
programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static  
scm_unused_struct* Context_def::mark_smob(scm_unused_struct*)
continuing, cross fingers
programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static  
scm_unused_struct* Lily_lexer::mark_smob(scm_unused_struct*)
continuing, cross fingers
programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static  
scm_unused_struct* Grob::mark_smob(scm_unused_struct*)
continuing, cross fingers
error: failed files: "ChordNames.ly"