Thanks, the italic umlaut problem turned out to be a problem with JPedal (jEdit's PDF viewer). When viewed with Acrobat Reader the italic umlauts were fine. As for the problem in the lyrics it turned out to be a file encoding issue.
-David Fred Leason wrote: > David: > > Can't help you with windows. > > However on OS X (Lilypond 2.10.20) the italic umlauts printed fine. I > used TexShop which is a confirmed "UTF-8 Unicode" editor. > > Furthermore, your email (X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0; Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit) came > through to my Apple Mail client including the umlauts. As long as this > was the original file you cut and pasted, I don't think your editor > mangled it. > > My SWAG: Check what fonts are available on your machine. > > On May 11, 2007, at 12:32 PM, David Bobroff wrote: > >> I'm post this to both bug- and -user as I'm not sure what's going on. >> The following file is essentially self-explanatory: >> >> >> %%% BEGIN LILYPOND FILE >> >> \version "2.10.20" %% On Windows >> >> \header { >> title = \markup { >> %% commenting out \italic allows proper rendering >> \italic >> "äëïöüÿ" >> } >> } >> >> \score { >> \relative c' { >> c1 >> } >> } >> >> %%% END LILYPOND FILE >> >> Leaving in '\italic' causes every umlaut to be rendered incorrectly. >> It's looks rather like a single curly quote on its side. >> >> I stumbled upon this problem in an odd way. My Linux laptop, where I >> prefer to do my Lily work had something go wrong. There's some problem >> with Xwindows. I was able to run it without X running and managed to >> upload some work I did not have duplicated elsewhere. I simply uploaded >> it to my web space and then downloaded it to another machine running >> Windows. I was making some minor edits (jEdit) and some test prints. >> All was well for a while. Then I noticed some anomalies. In a lyric an >> umlaut-a had become an upper case A with tilde followed by the universal >> currency symbol (I think). The lower case 'u' with grave was also >> different. This was obviously some sort of encoding issue. I would >> suppose something happened to these characters when they were placed on >> the web server, or on their way back to me. >> >> I was able to correct the 'u' with grave but not the umlaut-a nor any >> other umlauted vowel. It's puzzling as I have gone through and tried >> editing the input but in the case of the umlaut-a in the lyric line at >> prints as A-tilde currency in the PDF. >> >> Help? >> >> -David >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user