Re: Music fonts in local directory

[Urs Liska]

[CCing back to the list]


Am 10.07.2017 um 22:02 schrieb David Bellows:
>> If your software is able to determine the lilypond installation directory it 
>> could create the appropriate symlinks.
> Is there a Lilypond command for that? 

No.

> I'm using OS system commands to
> call Lilypond from inside my software so I could get that information
> if that's the case.

Well, that's what I would do. However, there are different ways how
LilyPond is installed, depending on OS and method. With binary releases
you can find the font directory from the executable. Its relative path
is "../share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf"
Linux package maintainers may organize things differently, though.

>
>> Apart from that I think I recall someone wrote you can add the font 
>> directory to LilyPond's include path.
> That would work nicely as well. Hopefully someone can give me a hint
> about that as well.

Hm, I just tested adding the folder to LilyPond's include path where the
fonts are, and that did *not* work.
So it seems my recollection was wrong ...

Best

Urs

>
> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Am 10. Juli 2017 04:29:35 MESZ schrieb David Bellows <address@hidden>:
>>> I fear I already know the answer to this question but I thought I'd try
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> I have a project that generates music and sheet music using Lilypond.
>>> I want to allow the user to use any music font they want (the free
>>> music fonts). But I want to keep things as simple as possible. So I
>>> don't want for them to have to figure out how to install the music
>>> fonts into the standard places that Lilypond looks for them.
>>>
>>> Instead I'd love for them to be able to download my software and keep
>>> those music fonts in a subdirectory of my project and for Lilypond to
>>> be able to find them.
>>>
>>> I've experimented a lot with this and cannot get anything to work. And
>>> based on what I've read I don't think it is possible, but I'm hoping
>>> this isn't the case. I really don't want to have to deal with making
>>> people install these fonts when it feels like I can just include them
>>> with my project.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave Bellows
>> If your software is able to determine the lilypond installation directory it 
>> could create the appropriate symlinks.
>>
>> Apart from that I think I recall someone wrote you can add the font 
>> directory to LilyPond's include path.
>>
>> HTH
>> Urs
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