Re: Error in printing ff

[James Lowe]

Hello Friedrich,


On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 19:09:39 +0100
Friedrich Kink <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear Simon,
> 
> thanks for the fast answer. By chance I found another example which I
> try to present as a snippet:
> 
> \layout {
>   ragged-right = ##t
> }
> 
> \header {
>    title = \markup \sans { "Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig"}
> }
> 
> { c'4 d' e2 }
> 
> Again the ligature "fl" does not work. As a further hint, this worked
> until and including version 2.19.25 (true for initial problem, too)
> til then it just prints a blank instead of "fl" or "ff".
> 
> kind regards,
>    Fritz


Just to make sure we are troubleshooting the correct thing (i.e. this
isn't something local to your system).

I used this modified version of your example - in case there was a
problem in the 'context' of the markup as to where the ligatures might
not be showing up.

--snip--

\version "2.19.56"

\layout {
  ragged-right = ##t
}

\header { title = "Ach wie fiuchtig" }

{ c'4^\markup \abs-fontsize #23 { "Ach wie flüchtig" } d' e2 }

\markup \abs-fontsize #30 { "Ach wie ffüchtig" }

--snip--

See attached png for output.

Please excuse the deliberate spelling
mistakes, I was just illustrating the basic 3 ligatures fl, fi and ff
and they all work for me on the most current build as you can see on my
output.

We did have a problem with ligatures not working in Windows - and we
had an issue for that back in 2015

https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/2656/

but otherwise unless I am misunderstanding, this seems to work for me on
Linux.

Regards

James

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