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

[Thomas Morley]

2015-09-04 11:16 GMT+02:00 Masamichi Hosoda <address@hidden>:

> 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
>

Will do in the evening. Have to run for my rl job :(