Re: Scandinavian letters in lyrics and text markup

[Mats Bengtsson]

You don't need to change the font-name or add the t1enc package
unless you want to be able to search for the lyrics in Acrobat
or copy/paste them from Acrobat to some other file.

Also, with most text editors (i.e. with editors that can
output latin1 coded text), you can just write the letters
as usual:

\score{
    <<
        \notes\relative c' {
            a4 a a a a a a a
            a4 a a a a a a a
        }
        \lyricsto "" \new Lyrics \lyrics {
            Han f\o -- rer d\o - dens s\aa g\aa_r
            Han før -- rer dø - dens så går
        }
    >>
}

I have answered similar question on the mailing list several times and
also pointed out the inability to add options to a specific package.
I think Jan had some extra problems, since he probably used the latest
development version, where the default font handling has changed.
Actually, ecrm12 (I assume the ecrb12 was a misprint) is not part of
any default TeX installation.
Jan's proposed solution has another problem, namely that the space after
the \aa is interpreted as "end of syllable" instead of as a space to be
copied into the generated TeX code. I used underscore instead (which is
translated to space in the generated code). Another possibility is to
include the syllable in double quotes:
"g\aa r"
Then you can also say
"g\aa{}r"
which is equivalent, but maybe is more logical viewed as TeX code.

    /Mats

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Oddgeir Finstad writes:
>
> You may try this:
>
> \header{
>     latexpackages="t1enc"
>     }
> \score{
>     <<
>         \notes\relative c' {
> 	    a4 a a a a a a a 
> 	}
>         \lyricsto "" \new Lyrics \lyrics {
>             \override LyricText #'font-name = #"ecrb12"
>             Han f\o -- rer d\o {} - dens s\aa g\aa r
>         }
>     >>
> }
>
> I'm amazed how much time it took me to figure this out, we should have
> some good examples on this.  The v2.2.0 lilypond script is not very
> flexible or elegant with respect to setting special latex options.
>
> I'm fairly sure that with some good bug reports (with latex code
> solutions) this could have been fixed eons ago.
>
> Jan.

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