Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-03 Thread Bric
On 11/02/2014 05:22 AM, Jay Vara wrote: Yes, you are right. The unicode fonts failed on 2.19.5. I even tried the new windows 10 and it failed. Now that I know it works on linux (thanks to Bric), I will try to get access to linux using virtual box and try it out. Just my two cents about

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-03 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Bric wrote: One particular, however: I would stay away from Unity, and opt for GNOME during installation. Someone could still correct me and persuade me about the glory of Unity, but I have instinctively disliked it from its inception, and am happily using the

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-03 Thread Bric
On 11/03/2014 08:09 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Bric wrote: One particular, however: I would stay away from Unity, and opt for GNOME during installation. Someone could still correct me and persuade me about the glory of Unity, but I have instinctively disliked it from

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-03 Thread Shane Brandes
XFCE is also a useful desktop interface. Unity might be good for tablet minded people but, at least, I found it to be highly disruptive of making any sort of useful workflow. Whichever shell one chooses Lilypond always performs excellently. Shane Brandes On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Bric

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-03 Thread David Bellows
And of course KDE is nice. And if you use Kubuntu then it's installed by default. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Shane Brandes sh...@grayskies.net wrote: XFCE is also a useful desktop interface. Unity might be good for tablet minded people but, at least, I found it to be highly disruptive of

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-02 Thread Jay Vara
Yes, you are right. The unicode fonts failed on 2.19.5. I even tried the new windows 10 and it failed. Now that I know it works on linux (thanks to Bric), I will try to get access to linux using virtual box and try it out. On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: If

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-01 Thread Bric
On 10/31/2014 07:29 AM, Jay Vara wrote: I tried to use unicode fonts for the lyrics. While the fonts show perfectly well in the input file, the output is not correct. Is there a workaround? %% \version 2.18.2 \score { \new Staff \relative c' { {c2 d4e

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I tried to use unicode fonts for the lyrics. While the fonts show perfectly well in the input file, the output is not correct. Is there a workaround? If the bottom one is correct then it is rendering correctly on Ubuntu 14.04, lilypond 2.19.3. ... This means we are again bitten by the

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-01 Thread Jean-Luc Chevillard
My failure with the Tamil script was also on Windows. It is obviously time for me to switch to Linux :-) -- Jean-Luc Chevillard (Paris) https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard; https://plus.google.com/u/0/113653379205101980081/posts/p/pub; https://twitter.com/JLC1956; On

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-01 Thread Jay Vara
If it works on Linux, I may have a way to get Linux on the windows PC using Virtual Box. On the other hand I am using version 2.18.2 - perhaps I should try 2.19.5 first. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Unicode-Font-Issues-tp168122p168243.html Sent from

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-11-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
If it works on Linux, I may have a way to get Linux on the windows PC using Virtual Box. On the other hand I am using version 2.18.2 - perhaps I should try 2.19.5 first. I fear that 2.19.5 will fail on Windows as 2.18.2 does. Werner ___

Unicode Font Issues

2014-10-31 Thread Jay Vara
I tried to use unicode fonts for the lyrics. While the fonts show perfectly well in the input file, the output is not correct. Is there a workaround? %% \version 2.18.2 \score { \new Staff \relative c' { {c2 d4e f2 g a b c} \new Lyrics

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-10-31 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[about lilypond lyrics in Kannada script] I tried to use unicode fonts for the lyrics. While the fonts show perfectly well in the input file, the output is not correct. Is there a workaround? This depends on (a) whether the used Pango library version has support for Kannada, and

Re: Unicode Font Issues

2014-10-31 Thread Jean-Luc Chevillard
Greetings from Paris! I had the same problem with the Tamil script (which also has complex Glyph rendering) while making transcriptions of Tēvāram songs, as in https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard/Musical-Transcription; and finally concluded that it was hopeless for the time