Re: Cannot identify a missing font for desired Lilypond output

[Volodymyr Prokopyuk]

Hi Jean,

I think you have found the solution! You mentioned that Ghostscript provides the default font. Ghostscript is not installed in my new system as I thought that it is not necessary as I use the Cairo backend. I did see the warning in the configure script about the recommendation of installing the Ghostscript, but I ignored it. Maybe it makes sense to set Ghostscript as a required dependency.

Tomorrow I'll install Ghostscript, rebuild Lilypond and let you know the outcome.

Thank you very much for your tireless and very professional support. I sincerely appreciate it!

Vlad

On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:25 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

Le samedi 13 mai 2023 à 23:12 +0200, Volodymyr Prokopyuk a écrit :

Hi Jean,

I do not use any explicit font family in the source code at all. I assume that the desired font is the default for Lilypond and is Emmentaler. Is the Emmentaler font installed automatically when Lilypond is installed or the font has to be installed separately? Is it installed in the system fonts or as a LaTeX font?

Hmm... That's pretty strange. If I compile

\markup \bold "А вже ясне сонечко"

in 2.24.1, with the Cairo backend, I get a PDF that looks like your "old" (good) PDF, and the font is C059.

Note that Emmentaler is not a text font but a music font, which is indeed LilyPond's default for music glyphs (and is developed together with LilyPond). The default text font for serif text is the C059 font. It should always be installed with LilyPond. In ArchLinux, that is achieved by making ghostscript a dependency of LilyPond.

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lilypond/

So I don't understand why the font is not found on your system.

Can you try to narrow down the problem? There are a few things:

- Does it give the same bad output without the Cairo backend?

- Are you indeed using the ArchLinux lilypond package? If so, can you try the binaries from https://lilypond.org/download.html ?

- Can you send the output from "lilypond -dshow-available-fonts"?

LilyPond's font system has nothing to do with LaTeX's, so LaTeX font packages are irrelevant for LilyPond, only the normal system fonts are searched.