New lilypond user here.  What is the current situation in 2025 related to 
add-on fonts for lilypond?   I see that there was once a bunch of fonts made by 
Abraham, and I think I have downloaded those (Haydn, cadence, etc.).  Then it 
appears that he was planning to release Arnold and some others commercially…but 
I don’t know if that ever happened as his MTF site is no longer around.

I actually did purchase his fonts from MTF that were release as SMuFL format a 
year or two ago, but since then his site went offline and now Dan has updated 
them in some way and they are being sold through another party..which I do not 
wish to pay for since I have the original ones I purchased from MTF…but in any 
case…are those usable in Lilypond?  Does lilypond officially support SMuFL now? 
 Does that mean all SMuFL?  I have others from NorFont I would love to use if 
they will work in lilypond, but will they?

What about Bravura?  Should I use the old one that was somehow converted to 
lilypond format..I think…or should I use th latest up to date SMuFL version of 
it?

And what other fonts may work in lilypond?

There is a lot of confusing information to me, I’m not really sure what I can 
or can’t do to use alternative music fonts in lilypond today..  other then the 
ones I got from GitHub that Abraham Lee made a long time ago and permitted them 
to remain free in the form.

Thanks in advance.


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