Re: a Lilypond-LaTeX font question

[Dominic Neumann]

When I use Lilypond+LaTeX, both my TeX and ly files are written in
UTF-8 encoding. Therefore you should add the line

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

into your LaTeX preamble. This works quite fine.



2008/1/14, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:
> The main issue here is that LilyPond wants UTF-8 encoded input whereas
> standard LaTeX doesn't understand UTF-8. I know that there are packages to
> LaTeX, or maybe separate versions of the latex command that can handle
> UTF-8, but I don't know any details about these.
>
> One alternative, to handle this incompatibility with standard LaTeX is
> to use
> \lilypondfile{...} and write the LilyPond code in separate files that
> are saved in
> UTF-8 encoding, whereas the main LaTeX file is kept in Latin1 encoding or
> whatever you normally use for your LaTeX files.
>
>    /Mats
>
> James E. Bailey wrote:
> > I'm new to LaTeX, but not lilypond. I'm using TeXShop, and I'm getting
> > some not really desired output.
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >     \begin{lilypond}
> >
> >     \version "2.11.36"
> >     \include "deutsch.ly"
> >     \header { title = "Beauty—be not caused—It Is—"    instrument =
> > "Querflöte" }
> >
> >     {c'2 fis'4 h'8 a'}
> >
> > \end{lilypond}
> >
> > \end{document}
> >
> >
> > I don't get the umlauts and I don't get the characters after my em
> > dashes. I'm assuming that LaTeX doesn't like getting em dashes input,
> > but how do I get lilypond to process the em dash inside of LaTeX? Same
> > thing for the umlaut?
> >
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