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Re: strange result for escaping "\" with other font-name


From: Masamichi Hosoda
Subject: Re: strange result for escaping "\" with other font-name
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:16:35 +0900
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On 2015年9月4日 17:51:16 JST, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
>2015-09-04 7:57 GMT+02:00 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
>> > trying to escape "\" in a string leads to strange results, for some
>> > font-names.
>> > Example below was ok with 2.18.2
>> >
>> > \version "2.19.26"
>> >
>> > \markup \override #'(font-name . "Times New Roman") "\\<==what?"
>>
>> The displayed font is definitely not `Times New Roman'.  It seems
>that
>> the font substituted by FontConfig is a CJK font using half-width
>> glyphs, and there it sometimes happens that the `\' slot gets
>replaced
>> with the Yen sign `¥', for compatibility with ancient Japanese
>> practice.
>>
>
>Agreed, so far.
>
>>
>> I think there is nothing to be done here, since it displays a font
>> problem (or bug).
>>
>
>Though, if 2.18.2 displays nicely (and it does), I'd tend to think
>something on our part causes this misbehahiour.
>(Ofcourse "Times New Roman" _is_ installed)
>
>Cheers,
>  Harm
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Would you show us both 2.18.2 and 2.19.26 results of following command?

$ FC_DEBUG=1 lilypond --verbose fonts-test-01.ly > result.txt 2>&1



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