Re: Icelandic characters in lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please add the following lines to your code and everything
should work fine:
\header{
  ...
  latexpackages = "t1enc"
}
...
\score{
  ...
  \paper{
    \translator{
      \ScoreContext
      LyricText  \set #'font-name = #"ecrm1000"
    }
  }
}

The reason that you have to override the font-name is that
LilyPond uses low-level TeX font selection mechanisms that
don't know anything about font encoding.

At second thought, you may get a problem with the generation
of PDF documents if you don't have Type1 versions of the ecrm
fonts installed. One possibility is to install the cm-super
font files from CTAN. An alternative if you just want Postscript
files to print is to use 'lilypond --no-pdf' which gives you
bitmapped fonts in the output.

Thanks for the hint about using the t1enc package.
I always use
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
in my own LaTeX documents, and the current header fields
in LilyPond doesn't let you specify such a combination of
package and options. However, the t1enc package gives the
same result.

   /Mats


Hrafnkell Eiríksson wrote:
> Hi
>             
> The icelandic language has a few characters that are not in
> the common ASCII character set (but are a part of the
> latin1 character set).
>             
> I'm able to use most of the characters in lyrics in Lilypond
> (I've got language = icelandic in the paper section) but not
> Ð ð  (called eth, Ð and ð in HTML)
> Þ þ  (called thorn, Þ þ in HTML)
>                        
> When I use them I get:
> ! LaTeX Error: Command \TH unavailable in encoding OT1.  (for Þ)
> ! LaTeX Error: Command \th unavailable in encoding OT1.  (for þ)
> ! LaTeX Error: Command \DH unavailable in encoding OT1.  (for Ð)
> ! LaTeX Error: Command \dh unavailable in encoding OT1.  (for ð)
>             
> I can enter these characters in LaTeX (directly, not using any
> escape sequences) if I do \usepackage{t1enc}.
> I've tried adding usepackage = t1enc to paper but it doesn't
> help.
>                         
> Is this a bug in Lilypond or am I doing something wrong?
>             
> My Lilypond version is 2.0.0 running on RedHat 9.
>                         
> Thanks in advance.
>   Hrafnkell
>
>
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