Lilypond Font Download
Eden Kolander
Fonts in LilyPond are handled by several libraries; two of themare of relevance to the user: FontConfig is used to detect available fonts, and selectedfonts are then rendered by Pangoto display text strings.
To verify that the desired fonts are found by FontConfig, use thecommand #(ly:font-config-display-fonts), which prints thecomplete list of available fonts to the console log. It alsoshows the actual font names to be used with LilyPond; these maydiffer from the file names themselves.
Each font family may include different shapes and series. Thefollowing example demonstrates that, including code to also changethe size. The value supplied to font-size is takenrelative to the default font size.
Almost all outline fonts installed on the operating system andrecognized by FontConfig may be used in a score, with theexception of bitmap fonts (which are not supported by design) andOpenType Variation Fonts (which are not supported yet).
Assuming the syntax is correct, setting a font name never fails.If none of the font families are known (or no font family isgiven), FontConfig returns a default font depending on theoperating system. If none of the style options are known (or nostyle option is given), default values are used.
Note that FontConfig also checks whether the requested glyph isactually present in the font. In case it is missing, another fontgets tried (following the above algorithm) until the glyph iseventually found. Only if FontConfig fails to find any font withthe appropriate glyph a symbol for a missing glyph is shown (whichis normally a rectangular box or simply some whitespace).
LilyPond provides an alternative, more flexible interface to setglobal font families. It allows you to change only specific fontfamily names, leaving others set to default values. The followingexample has the same effect as the abovemake-pango-font-tree example; the syntax for font familynames is identical. If you do not change the staff size from thedefault of 20pt, the line containing the #:factorkeyword is unnecessary.
Additionally, set-global-fonts can also set the musicnotation fonts. The following example has the same effect as theprevious examples, because it uses the default notation fonts.For more information, see Replacing the notation font.
Note that each call to set-global-fonts completely resetsboth the main notation and text fonts.5 Ifany font category is left unspecified, the respective default font(family) gets used for that category. Each call ofset-global-fonts affects all \book blocks thatfollow it. If there are multiple \book blocks and you wantto use different fonts for each, simply callset-global-fonts again, like this:
LilyPond neither uses FontConfig nor Pango for accessing musicnotation fonts but handles them by itself. As a consequence, theinterface is different. This section describes how to insertmusic symbols into markup strings.
Note: Each call to set-global-fonts completely resets both the mainnotation and text fonts. If any category is left unspecified, then the defaultfont will be used for that category.Each call to set-global-fonts changes the fonts for each \bookthat follows it, whether created explicitly or implicitly. This means that each\book can have its own set of main fonts by callingset-global-fonts before it.For more information, see Entire document fonts.
This should be fairly simple but I'm getting lost in instructions. What is the easiest way to change the font for the tune title only? I don't want to change the whole family of fonts for the whole sheet.
So discovered the elbsound font package ( -music-font-package-for-finale.php) which seemed reputable and although was suggested for use with other tools, I saw it provides otf files so I went ahead and grabbed it
You can see in the attached screenshots a comparison of the elbsound 'beethoven' otf file and one of the default emmentaler fonts included with lilypond. Notable all the lilypond font files simply replace certain characters in a standard font with musical notation, whereas the elbsound otf files are 100% notation.
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