3.4.4 Replacing the notation font

Gonville is an alternative to the Feta font used in LilyPond and can be downloaded from:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/gonville/

Here are a few sample bars of music set in Gonville:

pictures/Gonville_after

Here are a few sample bars of music set in LilyPond’s Feta font:

pictures/Gonville_before

Installation Instructions for MacOS

Download and extract the zip file. Copy the lilyfonts directory to ‘SHARE_DIR/lilypond/current’; for more information, see Other sources of information. Move the existing fonts directory to fonts_orig and move the lilyfonts directory to fonts. Simply move fonts_orig back to fonts to revert back to Feta.

See also

Learning Manual: Other sources of information.

Known issues and warnings

Gonville cannot be used to typeset ‘Ancient Music’ notation. Please refer to the author’s website for more information on this and other specifics including licensing of Gonville.


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