Re: Accidentals' font

[Jean Abou Samra]

Hi Jean-Julien,

Le 10/07/2020 à 10:34, Jean-Julien Fleck a écrit :
> Hello Urs,
>
>
> Le ven. 10 juil. 2020 à 09:03, Urs Liska <lists@openlilylib.org 
> <mailto:lists@openlilylib.org>> a écrit :
>
>
>     But I'd like to repeat that the fonts created by Abraham (including
>     Gonville) are at least partially available as free fonts, and they
>     already *can* be used in a regular LilyPond installation without any
>     hassles.
>
>     All you need to do is copy (or better link) the font files in the
>     fonts
>     directory (Frescobaldi even offers a nice interface for handling that
>     for arbitrary new LilyPond installations) and add some code to the
>     paper block of your document.
The manual procedure is described at 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/replacing-the-notation-font.en.html

I guess you can also just open the dedicated Frescobaldi interface and 
follow the steps.

>     If you use openLilyLib this is as easy as \useNotationFont Gonville.
>     The notation-fonts package even provides (optional) default
>     stylesheets
>     for all supported fonts (to provide a good starting point regarding
>     e.g. line thicknesses).
>
>
> Could you please give us a link that explains how to do that 
> installation ?
>
> I've been searching (a bit) ever since the page 
> https://github.com/OpenLilyPondFonts appeared in this thread but 
> couldn't find a tutorial to explain step by step what to do. I would 
> have expected that such an explanation to be placed in the README.md 
> file at the top of each font repository, at least pointing to a place 
> explaining the generic way to do it but I couldn't find any.
>
> Is there such a step-by-step tutorial and where can I find it ?

What Urs describes is an openLilyLib package, so you want to get started 
with openLilyLib first. 
https://www.openlilylib.org/getstarted/install.html, perhaps?

Regards,
Jean Abou Samra