Re: Music fonts in local directory

[David Bellows]

> If your software is able to determine the lilypond installation directory it 
> could create the appropriate symlinks.

Is there a Lilypond command for that? I'm using OS system commands to
call Lilypond from inside my software so I could get that information
if that's the case.

> Apart from that I think I recall someone wrote you can add the font directory 
> to LilyPond's include path.

That would work nicely as well. Hopefully someone can give me a hint
about that as well.

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Am 10. Juli 2017 04:29:35 MESZ schrieb David Bellows <address@hidden>:
>>I fear I already know the answer to this question but I thought I'd try
>>anyway.
>>
>>I have a project that generates music and sheet music using Lilypond.
>>I want to allow the user to use any music font they want (the free
>>music fonts). But I want to keep things as simple as possible. So I
>>don't want for them to have to figure out how to install the music
>>fonts into the standard places that Lilypond looks for them.
>>
>>Instead I'd love for them to be able to download my software and keep
>>those music fonts in a subdirectory of my project and for Lilypond to
>>be able to find them.
>>
>>I've experimented a lot with this and cannot get anything to work. And
>>based on what I've read I don't think it is possible, but I'm hoping
>>this isn't the case. I really don't want to have to deal with making
>>people install these fonts when it feels like I can just include them
>>with my project.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dave Bellows
>
> If your software is able to determine the lilypond installation directory it 
> could create the appropriate symlinks.
>
> Apart from that I think I recall someone wrote you can add the font directory 
> to LilyPond's include path.
>
> HTH
> Urs
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