LY_DEFINE (ly_paper_get_font, "ly:paper-get-font", 2, 0, 0,
(SCM paper, SCM chain),
- "Return a font metric satisfying the font-qualifiers in the alist chain @var{chain}.\n"
-"\n"
-"The font object represents the metric information of a font. Every font\n"
-"that is loaded into LilyPond can be accessed via Scheme. \n"
-"\n"
-"LilyPond only needs to know the dimension of glyph to be able to process\n"
-"them. This information is stored in font metric files. LilyPond can read\n"
-"two types of font-metrics: @TeX{} Font Metric files (TFM files) and\n"
-"Adobe Font Metric files (AFM files). LilyPond will always try to load\n"
-"AFM files first since they are more versatile.\n"
-"\n"
-"An alist chain is a list of alists, containing grob properties.\n")
+
+ "Return a font metric satisfying the font-qualifiers "
+ "in the alist chain @var{chain}.\n"
+ "(An alist chain is a list of alists, containing grob properties).\n")
{
Paper_def *pap = unsmob_paper (paper);
SCM_ASSERT_TYPE (pap, paper, SCM_ARG1, __FUNCTION__, "paper definition");