Re: Frescobaldi & edition engraver

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 05/01/2023 à 17:20, Michael Dietz a écrit :
> I have three follow-up questions concerning Flatpak-Frescobaldi:
>
> The PDF next to the .ly files seems to be unchanged. Why doesn't it 
> update?


Most likely, you forgot to save the .ly file after changing it, so what 
you see is a temporary .pdf file created from a temporary .ly file made 
by Frescobaldi.


> How can I install other music fonts? I used to copy them into
> ~/mydir/lilypond-2.24.0/share/lilypond/2.24.0/fonts/{otf,svg}
> But as the exectuable is listed as /app/bin/lilypond, I guess fonts in 
> the above directory are not picked up.
> It seems like I cannot use alternative lilypond installations. I have 
> a few of them. But if I enter them in the list in settings, their path 
> is listed as /run/user/1000/... instead of their "real" path. Is it 
> possible to use different versions or only the one packaged with Flatpak?


It's complicated. See

https://github.com/flathub/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi/issues/10
https://github.com/flathub/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi/issues/15

Basically, if you put them under a folder that the Flatpak has access 
to, like ~/Documents, it *may* work, but you're on your own 
(specifically, it happens to work with 2.24 because the binaries are 
static, but it doesn't work with self-compiled binaries, and it will 
probably not work with 2.22 binaries).

You have to do this, if you get it to work, in order to use custom music 
fonts, since you need to put them in LilyPond's installation directory.

If this sounds awkward, that's because it is. Please help me to pester 
the Ubuntu developers so that progress is made on making Frescobaldi 
work again in Ubuntu 22.04.

Or just update to Ubuntu 22.10, which does not have this issue.

Or use another distro; I have Fedora and the maintainer was very 
reactive with Frescobaldi problems.

Best,
Jean

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