#4585 updates to URW fonts and Pango

On 31/08/15 15:17, Masamichi HOSODA wrote:

There's lots of differences, presumably down to font changes,

Also sans \bold and \italic do not seem to work in
font-family-override.ly

Well, I call uh-oh. It will probably take a few more unstable releases
to shake out the problems from the font setup changes.

Probably, it caused by URW fonts problem and/or Pango version.

In my experiment, with newest URW fonts release (commit date is 2015-08-28)
and newest Pango (version 1.36.8, 2014-09), there is no problem.
Attached file is the result.

First, the previous URW fonts release (commit date is 2015-08-25) seems broken.
It has "Nimbus Sans Regular", "Nimbus Sans L Bold",
"Nimbus Sans L Regular Italic", "Nimbus Sans L Bold Italic".
Only "Regular" font's family name is "Nimbus Sans"
but others are "Nimbus Sans L".

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696089
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=urw-core35-fonts.git;a=commitdiff;h=ee2beed6

The newest URW fonts release has no "Nimbus Sans" but "Nimbus Sans L".

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=urw-core35-fonts.git;a=commit;h=c983ed400dc278dcf20bdff68252fad6d9db7af9

Next, we use old Pango (version 1.28.3, 2010-09) in GUB.
In four years, many bugs would have been fixed.

So I'll make a GUB's patch that updates URW fonts and Pango.

[Masamichi Hosoda]

I've made a GUB's patch and send pull request.
https://github.com/gperciva/gub/pull/20

This is not LilyPond's patch. It is GUB's patch.
So I've send pull request to github.

Phil, would you merge it and try following command before make lilypond?

$ git fetch orign
$ git checkout master
$ git merge origin/master
$ rm -fr downloads/fonts-urw-core35/

[Masamichi Hosoda]

GUB's pull request has been merged.
https://github.com/gperciva/gub/pull/20

In LilyPond website's official binary 2.19.27, sans \bold and \italic seem to work in font-family-override.ly
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/input/regression/collated-files.html#font-family-override.ly