While I use Frescobaldi, I was speaking as someone that has built a few score of fonts for sale, knowing there is often a larger gap between what is possible and what was likely done.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonm...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > Shane, > > If you are using Frescobaldi, you could not use \caps and access the special > characters. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: lilypond-user > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of > Shane Brandes > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 2:53 PM > To: Jonathan Scholbach <j.scholb...@posteo.de> > Cc: LilyPond User Group <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Subject: Re: \caps with Umlaut > > Small caps are a subset of a font, it is pretty rare to have small caps > worked out beyond the standard 26. This because they did not exist in Unicode > as a defined glyph. Unicode is still only has 24 small caps defined. Your > best bet is to try the Bold smaller size trick and see if that works. > > Shane Brandes > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Jonathan Scholbach <j.scholb...@posteo.de> > wrote: >> Dear ponders, >> >> I am using \caps in a \markup which prints the name of the composer. >> After having set a couple of pieces today it's the first time the >> composer's name contains an umlaut (in this case an ä). And that was >> when I found out, that \caps, as well as \smallCaps, "does not support >> accented character" (quoted from >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/font) - the ä - >> is printed as a lowercase letter. >> >> The ME is: >> >> \version "2.19.22" >> >> \markup{ \caps Bartholomäus } >> >> How can I solve this problem? I mean, how can I achieve that \caps >> works properly with umlauts and uses the uppercase umlaut? >> >> Your advice is very much appreciated, >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user