Re: Missing font for IPA character

[Thomas Morley]

2014-06-08 12:02 GMT+02:00 Oliver Giles <address@hidden>:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm struggling to output IPA characters as part of lyrics for a singing 
> exercise;
> this example (UTF-8 encoding):
> : <<
> : \relative c' { f }
> : \addlyrics { ɔ }
> : >>
> produces the warning
> : no PostScript font name for font `/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ncenR24.pcf.gz'
> : FreeType face has no PostScript font name
> from the lilypond compiler. The resulting output has the character (LATIN 
> SMALL
> LETTER OPEN O (U+0254)) omitted. I guess part of the typesetting process 
> (Pango?)
> is failing to find an appropriate glyph? Any tips to debug from here? I am 
> using
> lilypond 2.18.2 on Arch Linux.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Oliver



Hi Oliver,

I've no problems with your code using
LilyPond 2.18.0 or 2.19.6
on Ubuntu 10.04 with Ghostscript 8.70

Does invoking lilypond with the verbose option gives you some helpful info?

Cheers,
  Harm