Re: set-global-font challenge in 2.26.0

On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Upon further experimentation, the problematic font on my system seems to
> be “lilyjazz”, so it’s the music font itself.  Commenting that out results
> in the file rendering, albeit with the default music font and the lilyjazz
> chord names and text.
>
> My next plan is to install the newer lilyjazz music fonts in hopes this
> will fix it; Frescobaldi and Lilypond don’t seem to be able to find fonts
> in the normal MacOS location, even though I have added that to $PATH.  In
> the past I have had to install the various lilyjazz OTF files in the fonts
> directory within Lilypond.  I’m running into a glitch in that I can’t find
> where Frescobaldi has installed Lilypond (I used the option within
> Frescobaldi > Preferences > Lilypond); does anyone know where that goes on
> MacOS?  It does not come up searching in the Finder, but Apple goes to some
> lengths to hide many things from the hoi polloi so that we don’t eff things
> up…  it’s an almost-but-not-quite POSIX system.
>

In Frescobaldi, go to Tools -> Directories -> Open LilyPond Data Directory
and that should show you where to install the fonts.

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Knute Snortum