Re: insertion of UTF-8 characters

[Trevor Daniels]

Neil Puttock wrote Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:33 PM

> Hi Trevor,
>
> 2008/10/14 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
> > Tom
> >
> > It has to be within a \markup and not in quotes.  And xc2a9 should be 
> > 00a9.
> >
> > Try
> >
> >   c'4^\markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) }
> >
> > or just
> >
> >   \markup { "Copyright 2008" #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) }
> >
> > outside the score block to place it in text, or for the copyright line, 
> > try
> >
> >   copyright = \markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) 
> > "2008" }
>
> For the docs examples, I think it would be better to replace the
> Scheme hack with \char, which uses ly:wide-char->utf-8 internally.
>
> c'4^\markup { \char ##xa9 }

Absolutely!  This -was- documented, I now realise, in App B.8.6, but
I hadn't met it before.  I'll change the new examples I added today to
use it, as you suggest.  And remove the Scheme hack.  Thanks.

> Regards,
> Neil

Trevor