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

[Thomas Morley]

2015-09-05 9:30 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Indeed very interesting that it can be done inserting the comma
>>
>> \version "2.19.26"
>>
>> \markup \override #'(font-name . "Times New Roman,") "\\<==what?"
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4591/
>>
>> Meanwhile I've found
>> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=699
>
> But the details in that report point to something entirely different not
> related to architecture or font substitutions.  Reports are from
> 2009/2010: I'm not sure how many people actually ran 64bit versions of
> Windows then.
>
>> Obviously it worked some time in the past, than not, than again ....
>
> You are changing the string contents (without counting a possibly
> terminating \0 character) from 15 characters to 16 characters here.
> 15/16 is a suspicious threshold where different architectures and
> compilers/libraries are involved.
>
>>> Second, your 2.19.26's fontconfig configure files
>>> do not seem to have substitute settings.
>>
>> It's not clear to me why this happens. Is it a LilyPond-problem or
>> something at my part?
>> With 2.18.2 and 2.19.26 I'm on a 64-bit LINUX
>> Trying with a build from master, lilyDev (32bit Debian), I do get
>> substitute settings
>
> Can you try some other font name expected to work and containing exactly
> 15 characters?
>
> --
> David Kastrup

I tried:

\markup \override #'(font-name . "TeXGyreAdventor") "\\<==what?"

and the not existent:

\markup \override #'(font-name . "TeXGyreAdventos") "\\<==what?"

log-files attached

Cheers,
  Harm

result-test-2-19-26-TexGyreAdventor.txt
Description: Text document

result-test-2-19-26-TexGyreAdventos.txt
Description: Text document