Re: setting a text font

[Graham Percival]

On 5-Aug-05, at 1:19 AM, Colin Wilding wrote:

> I am using 2.6.1 in Windows, and I have noticed that you need to refer
> to fonts by their file names, not by the names that are normally used
> to select them in other programmes.  The file names can be found by
> looking in the Fonts folder.  For example, for 'Courier New' use
> 'COUR' because the file is 'COUR.TTF' (I'm not sure if the names are
> case sensitive).
>
> 'Verdana' works because the file is 'Verdana.ttf'.
>
> I suggest that this feature be documented because Windows users would
> normally expect to use the full font names and not the file names.

Is this the expected behavior?  I haven't really played with font names,
but a quick glance through the font docs suggests that this is false.  
Could
this be a windows packaging issue, rather than a general lilypond
design/documentation issue?

Cheers,
- Graham