Hi Simon, you can use all the font mechanisms if you don't specify the font via font-name.
If you use font-name, all the font-shape and font-series things don't work anymore (which is kind of understandable from the internals but certainly not expected by most users). But If you add a font in the paper block, you can use it via font-family and then you have access to the whole family including -series and -shape: \version "2.19.50" \paper { #(add-pango-fonts fonts 'ubuntu "Ubuntu" (/ (* staff-height pt) 2.5)) } % now 'ubuntu is a font-family you can use { 1-\tweak font-encoding #'latin1 \tweak font-family #'ubuntu \tweak font-size 6 \tweak font-shape #'italic -3 } HTH, Joram PS: Cudos to Abraham who showed me this! _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond