Re: Inputting special symbols

[Gilles]

Hello.

> 
> The problem I've had with that is that when I define
> 
>      eaigu = "<the utf-8 double byte for é>"
> 
> and then (later) say
> 
>      \markup "sym" \eaigu "trique"
> 
> what I get in the PDF file is
> 
>      sym é trique
> 
> because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components.
> 

I noticed that too, and I'd tend to consider this as a bug.

And there is also the "reverse" behaviour:  Blank spaces at the
beginning or end of double-quoted strings are trimmed.  This was
reported in

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00277.html

but I didn't get any reply to confirm the bug.

Best,
Gilles