Re: warning: no glyph for character ... in font ...

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno gio 27 ott 2022 alle 15:28:15 +0200, Jean Abou Samra 
<jean@abou-samra.fr> ha scritto:
> Well, it means what it says -- the font C059 (New
> Century SchoolBook), which is LilyPond's default text
> font, does not have this glyph. If I compile
>
> \version "2.23.80"
>
> \markup \char ##x279B
>
> \header {
>   tagline = ##f
> }
>
>
> and run 'pdffonts' on the resulting PDF file, I get
>
> name                                 type encoding         emb sub 
> uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- 
> ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
> ZEHBZK+FreeSerif                     TrueType WinAnsi          yes 
> yes yes      7  0
>
>
> Since C059 does not have a glyph for this character, Fontconfig
> automatically substitutes some font from the system that does have
> this character, according to LilyPond's font configuration file
> and the system-wide configuration file.
>
> If you run LilyPond in an isolated environment, it needs to contain
> some font with this character, visible by Fontconfig.

I used your minimal example to test it and I found out that I was 
missing the font everywhere, not just in the container. I guess the 
character was not printed at all.. but I didn't check the PDF file.

I've now installed in my home a FreeSerif font and everything works 
fine.

Thanks
Federico