Re: German Text Characters

[Stephen]

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Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: German Text Characters


> Unfortunately, you have not told us, what OS and Lilypond version you are
> using (Linux or Windows). Anyway, the solution below should work. Just 
> make
> sure you have German keyboard support installed on your system. Since
> lilypond 2.6 (I think) UTF-8 input is supported. There is no need to use
> special markup commands. So, here's what to do:
>
> 1. Enter the desired text in a editor (notepad, kedit on linux - jEdit is
> the best for me), and save it with UTF-8 encoding.

Just to explain further, you can switch the default encoding in jEdit to 
UTF-8 by going to Utilities/Global Options/Default character encoding: 
second line from the top.

Stephen

> 2. lilypond your score and voila!
>
> I have been typesetting al kinds of choral works so far in hungarian, 
> using
> special charactersm like oumlaut, uhungarumlaut, etc. and it works. I use
> WinXP and Lilypond 2.8.1
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