Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 27 January 2011 19:17, James Samir Ismail <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Xavier,
>
> I suspected that it could be a font problem, but as I'm new to
> Lilypond, can you give me a snippet for changing the font? I'll try
> to figure out a font that I know supports Arabic well, and test it
> again.

  \markup { \override #'(font-name . "new font") "العربية" }

where "new font" is the name of the font to use.


To have a list of all available fonts on the operating system, type

  lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x

in a terminal.

But better is to read the "font" section of the notation reference manual.
NR 1.8.3 Fonts
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/fonts.html

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>