From: "bears388" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:00 AM
Dear Both,
Coincidentally found the answer to my problem by reading the maillist
archive and fiddling around! It's very similar to the solution given by
Stephen, to whom many thanks! Here's my take:-
Write the input file in Notepad, or, if you've written input in Lilypad,
cut and paste the Lilypad entries to Notepad. For saving the file: use
Save As ...; in the "Save as Type" change to "All Files" (this is very
important as
Once I unchecked 'Hide extensions for known file types' under Folder
Options, I no longer had to choose 'All Files' in NotePad.
Stephen
the Text Document (*.txt)option will give you a file called *.ly.txt which
won't generate a PDF); type in the full name of the file (for example:
"Cantata bwv1.ly")and finally change the "Encoding" to uft-8 and click the
Save button. The resulting file will be a .ly file and double clicking it
will generate the file with readable utf-8 characters.
Just to be sure it works, I've tried it on two files: my own cantata input
and an Schubert song example. This should do the trick for all those
people who've been having problems with generating the correct PDF text,
be it Headers or Lyrics.
The "foreign" characters can be input using the numeric keyboard and the
alt key + 0 + Unicode number. The รถ I was complaining to Graham about is
Alt + 0 + 246. If you want, or need, I can e-mail the list I downloaded
from the web.
Thanks Graham and Stephen.
Regards,
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "bears388"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: German text characters
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "bears388" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: German text characters
On 23-May-06, at 3:39 AM, bears388 wrote:
Downloaded the 2.8.2 Manual, and found the entries the same. I also got
a unicode character set, but no matter what I try, writing the
characters in unicode and saving them as utf-8 and then cutting and
pasting,I cannot get the umlauts on any letters that need them. Other
people manage this, why can't I?
I'm using Version 2.6.5 and MS Notepad to enter code. Do I need a
higher version of Lilypond, or another editor? If so, which? No one
else has answered my request except you!
I don't use windows, so I can't help with windows software. Please
search the mailist archives for "notepad" or "utf-8 text editor" or
something like that. This question has been discussed a few times, but
I never really paid attention. Depending on your version of windows, I
think that there's an option in the notepad preferences that let you
select "save as utf-8".
That is correct, I use XP. Since Lilypond 2.6 you can use special
characters simply by saving the lilypond files in UTF-8 encoding. In
NotePad choose Save AS... and click on the dropdown menu for Encoding.
Choose UTF-8 instead of ANSI.
I also like to use jEdit for this, however. The difference is that you
can make UTF-8 encoding the default if you use jEdit. I don't think you
can change NotePad's default behavior of saving everything as ANSI
initially, although it respects and preserves whatever text format it is
in after you change it.
Stephen
Cheers,
- Graham
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