#4966 the font name is Emmentaler, while Feta and Parmesan are two subsets of glyphs

[Federico Bruni]

This has been reported several times:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-11/msg00594.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2016-07/msg00196.html

Here's the summary made by Abraham. I highlighted point 4, since it would require a change in the source code:

1. There is no "Feta" font. It's called "Emmentaler", but it consists of
   two sub-sets of glyphs: "Feta" (the classical notation glyphs) and
   "Parmesan" (the ancient notation glyphs).

2. Since Emmentaler comes in 8 different optical sizes, the commands to
   load them only require the root name "emmentaler" to load them all.

3. The fonts are located, not in the system's font directory(s), but in the
   program's own font folder, typically
   "[LilyPondDir]/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/".

4. To use Emmentaler (or whichever is the main font, if using an
alternative) for a grob that supports the font-interface, it can be set via
the 'font-family property, but the value isn't 'emmentaler, it's 'feta
(sigh). It's a shorter name, which is nice, but it isn't technically
accurate.

1. In a \markup, the fonts can be accessed directly with the real font
   name, like "emmentaler-23".

2. In the NR, section A.8 is entitled "The Feta font", but the opening line
   starts out with "The following symbols are available in the Emmentaler
   font..."

In other words, there's some inconsistency floating around.

[Anonymous]

Doc: Clarify Emmentaler with regard to Feta and Parmesan Glyphs

Issue 4966

Distinguish between Emmentaler
the 'font' and Feta/Parmesan
glyphs that make up the
Emmentaler font family.

http://codereview.appspot.com/320310043

[Anonymous]

Passes make, make check and a full make doc.

Apologies to the translators if I have made any glaring errors in my attempt to get some consistency.

[Anonymous]

Patch on countdown for March 10th.

[Anonymous]

Patch counted down - please push.

[Anonymous]

author James Lowe pkx@gnu.org
Sun, 5 Mar 2017 16:34:39 +0000 (16:34 +0000)
committer James Lowe pkx166h@gmail.com
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:19:49 +0000 (11:19 +0000)
commit 18d03fa6a724b0102ccc47d194209802cea02f2e

@Federico, can you check this is good enough to close this tracker or if we need to do anything more (with regard to the other 3 points).

Thanks

James

[Federico Bruni]

James, I think that you can mark this issue as fixed and I'll create a new issue for the fourth item in the above list.

I have only two comments about your patch (sorry for being late):

1. There's a typo in Documentation/notation/notation-appendices.itely:

used for clasical notation and @qq{Parmesan}, sed for Ancient

sed -> used

1. Perhaps you should have renamed this file with 'git mv' for consistency?

$ find Documentation/ -name feta*
Documentation/contributor/feta-font.itexi