Re: font error in 2.11.36 - workaround

[Risto Vääräniemi]

Dear All,

Risto Vääräniemi wrote:
> It also seems to affect other text features such as lyrics and markup 
> (in Win2k). 

I made some more tests. On my XP box the effect was similar to Martial-3's
observations, i.e., dynamic texts and time signature is converted to
sans-serif font but lyrics and markups are fine. I was wondering why I got
different results on this computer and I finally remembered that I had
copied the LP fonts to the Windoze Fonts directory. When I copied them also
on my W2k box I got similar results. 

Somehow it seems that LP does not find the fonts in its own directory
structure and cannot use the Emmentaler font from Windows\Fonts directory. 

When I ran LP using -V option on .35 and .36 one line caught my eye. LP .36
tries to set: 
GS_FONTPATH=C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/../share/gs/fonts

The above-mentioned directory does not exist. I tried to copy the fonts
there but nothing really changed. :-( 

When printing to PS file starts, .35 prints a list of fonts that reside in
LP installation path. .36, however, prints a list of fonts from
C:\Windows\Fonts directory. When they are compared, the feta-alphabet20.pfa
font is replaced by Verdana.ttf, which causes the font weirdness.

Then I copied also the Type1 Feta fonts to windoze\fonts directory (normal
copy & paste doesn't work, but command line copy does). After that LP can
find the Feta font and the output seems quite OK.

This is probably not the ultimate solution but now I can use the .36.

-Risto
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