Re: set-global-font challenge in 2.26.0

On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 11:29 AM Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > Updating to 2.26.0 (using Frescobaldi’s preferences) broke my use of
> > the lilyjazz font set.  [...]
>
> I don't know the Frescobaldi stuff, however, ...
>
> > [...]  So I tried commenting "\include lilyjazz.ily" out and using:
> >
> > \paper {
> >     #(set-paper-size "letter")
> >     indent = 0.0
> >     ragged-last = ##f
> >
> >     #(define fonts
> >     (set-global-fonts
> >      #:music "LilyJAZZ"
> >      #:brace "LilyJAZZ"
> >      #:roman "Lilyjazz-text"
> >      #:sans "Lilyjazztext"
> >
> >     ))
> >
> > }
> >
> > This is copied straight out of the documentation with the font names
> > changed.
>
> ... this you got wrong: the syntax for setting fonts is different with
> version 2.26 – please always check what has changed!
>
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/changes/text-and-font-improvements
>
>
>      Werner
>

You can update lilyjazz.ily in Frescobaldi by going to Tools -> Update with
convert-ly.  For me, the change was this:

%%%
\version "2.26.0"

\paper {
  property-defaults.fonts.music = "lilyjazz"
  property-defaults.fonts.serif = "lilyjazz-text"
  property-defaults.fonts.sans = "lilyjazz-chord"
}
%%%

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Knute Snortum