Re: font switching help

[james]

Am 04.12.2008 um 06:41 schrieb Jan van Dijk:

> Op Thursday 04 December 2008 00:47:52 schreef james:
> > I'm not understanding how font switching in a \markup block works. I
> > thought that I could just do \markup \override #'(fontname .
> > #'Courier) {test} and it would work, but it doesn't. Is there some
> > other command that I've missed?
> >
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> You can try this one:
> \override #'(font-name . "Courier")

Ah, I see now that courier was a poor choice, because Lilypond has  
its own courier. I'm trying to get to a font that's just installed on  
the computer, Palatino, to be precise. So far, I've been unsuccessful  
in my attempt. I found a thread from kieren a while ago that  
mentions, "Pango on OSX can only use Truetype fonts (including  
dfonts) that contain only one font variant".
Unfortunately, the answer is apparently in a regression test  
document, font-family-override.ly and I don't know where to find  
input/regression (which is where I assume from the documentation this  
file would live). I'm on MacOSX 10.4.