Re: strange result for escaping "\" with other font-name

[Thomas Morley]

2015-09-04 11:58 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:

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> 2015-09-04 11:16 GMT+02:00 Masamichi Hosoda <address@hidden>:
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>> On 2015年9月4日 17:51:16 JST, Thomas Morley <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> >2015-09-04 7:57 GMT+02:00 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>> >
>> >> > trying to escape "\" in a string leads to strange results, for some
>> >> > font-names.
>> >> > Example below was ok with 2.18.2
>> >> >
>> >> > \version "2.19.26"
>> >> >
>> >> > \markup \override #'(font-name . "Times New Roman") "\\<==what?"
>> >>
>> >> The displayed font is definitely not `Times New Roman'.  It seems
>> >that
>> >> the font substituted by FontConfig is a CJK font using half-width
>> >> glyphs, and there it sometimes happens that the `\' slot gets
>> >replaced
>> >> with the Yen sign `¥', for compatibility with ancient Japanese
>> >> practice.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Agreed, so far.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I think there is nothing to be done here, since it displays a font
>> >> problem (or bug).
>> >>
>> >
>> >Though, if 2.18.2 displays nicely (and it does), I'd tend to think
>> >something on our part causes this misbehahiour.
>> >(Ofcourse "Times New Roman" _is_ installed)
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >  Harm
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>> Would you show us both 2.18.2 and 2.19.26 results of following command?
>>
>> $ FC_DEBUG=1 lilypond --verbose fonts-test-01.ly > result.txt 2>&1
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> Will do in the evening. Have to run for my rl job :(
>

Got a spare minute.

Remark: I always rename latest devel-version to lilydevel

result-2-19-26.txt
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result-2-18-2.txt
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