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Finding fonts
In addition to any font already installed on the operating system, more fonts may be added to the ones detected by FontConfig (and thus available in LilyPond scores) by the following commands:
#(ly:font-config-add-font "path/to/font-file") #(ly:font-config-add-directory "path/to/directory/")
Both commands accept either absolute or relative paths, which makes it possible to compile a score on any system by simply distributing the relevant font files together with the LilyPond input files.
To verify that the desired fonts are found by FontConfig, use the
command #(ly:font-config-display-fonts), which prints the
complete list of available fonts to the console log. It also
shows the actual font names to be used with LilyPond; these may
differ from the file names themselves. Alternatively, running
lilypond -dshow-available-fonts in a terminal has the
same effect.