Re: Doc: Some miscellaneous suggestions from Peter Toye (issue 579280043 by address@hidden)

[lilypond]

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Saturday, February 8, 2020, 5:03:15 AM, you wrote:


>> Теноры

>> Very odd - I've just installed a CMU font and it's got all the
>> Russian alphabet.

> What exactly do you mean with 'installing'?  I'm talking about the
> creation of PDF files using xelatex, using only standardized fonts
> (this is, avoiding fonts that are accidentally present on your
> system).

I thought that "install a font" meant "install a font". I'm on Windows, so it 
may have other meanings on other OSs. 

>> See the line above which is in CMU Concrete!

> ???  I use Emacs to read my e-mail, and emacs
> is configured to use the
> font 'DejaVu Sans Mono' on my GNU/Linux box.  This font contains
> Cyrillic glyphs...

I composed that line in the email using CMU Concrete. Presumably your email 
client changes that.

>> Are you sure that you've got all of the font installed?

> It seems there is a fundamental
> misunderstanding.  We want to
> *restrict* the fonts used for creating the
> documentation to an exactly
> defined set so that you get identical PDFs regardless on which
> platform they are built.  By default, texinfo uses the 'Computer
> Modern' (CM) family; for some additional glyphs the 'EC' and 'feym*'
> font families get used.  None of those fonts
> contain Cyrillic glyphs.

OK, that's fine by me. I was confused as earlier emails referred to the font 
family, not the version of the font that are used in the documentation project, 
which you tell me is a subset.

> Note that music snippets in the PDF are handled differently.


>     Werner