Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-27 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-10-27 12:34 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup : > It has nothing to do with how you arrive at "⁹": Guile-1.8 will not > print it properly. Indeed. Even below doesn't work: guile> "⁹" "�\x81�" Though, I found a very crude way to do so, requring guilev2 is on your system. In my case it's in a selfcompi

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-27 Thread David Kastrup
Maurits Lamers writes: >> Op 27 okt. 2017, om 10:18 heeft David Kastrup het >> volgende geschreven: >> >> Maurits Lamers mailto:maur...@weidestraat.nl>> >> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> > > I cannot convert a multi-byte character to a symbol, unless I do some > very inelegant hacks. >>

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-27 Thread Maurits Lamers
> Op 27 okt. 2017, om 10:18 heeft David Kastrup het volgende > geschreven: > > Maurits Lamers mailto:maur...@weidestraat.nl>> > writes: > >> Hi, >> I cannot convert a multi-byte character to a symbol, unless I do some very inelegant hacks. >>> >>> Huh? string->symbol works

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-27 Thread David Kastrup
Maurits Lamers writes: > Hi, > >>> >>> I cannot convert a multi-byte character to a symbol, unless I do some >>> very inelegant hacks. >> >> Huh? string->symbol works just fine. So what do you mean when you say >> "symbol"? > > This is partly because of a mistake on my end. I defined my brail

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-27 Thread Maurits Lamers
Hi, >> >> I cannot convert a multi-byte character to a symbol, unless I do some >> very inelegant hacks. > > Huh? string->symbol works just fine. So what do you mean when you say > "symbol"? This is partly because of a mistake on my end. I defined my braille dots lookup alist through symbols

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-27 Thread David Kastrup
Maurits Lamers writes: >> Op 26 okt. 2017, om 17:27 heeft David Kastrup het >> volgende geschreven: >> >> Maurits Lamers mailto:maur...@weidestraat.nl>> >> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am writing an extension to lilypond to support generating some basic >>> braille inside an includable .ly f

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-26 Thread Maurits Lamers
> Op 26 okt. 2017, om 17:27 heeft David Kastrup het volgende > geschreven: > > Maurits Lamers mailto:maur...@weidestraat.nl>> > writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I am writing an extension to lilypond to support generating some basic >> braille inside an includable .ly file. >> I am trying to map the ch

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2017-10-26 um 16:48 schrieb Maurits Lamers : > At the same time this makes me wonder how complex it would be to update our > library. Nevertheless, our implementation should run on a "normal" > distribution of Lilypond. Did you try convert-ly? If it works, running a batch process on 1000 fil

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
Maurits Lamers writes: > Hi, > > I am writing an extension to lilypond to support generating some basic > braille inside an includable .ly file. > I am trying to map the characters of lyric events into a set of braille dots. > One of the issues I have is that I have trouble finding a way to do >

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-26 Thread Maurits Lamers
> Op 26 okt. 2017, om 16:19 heeft Thomas Morley het > volgende geschreven: > > 2017-10-26 15:15 GMT+02:00 Maurits Lamers >: >> Hi, >> >> I am writing an extension to lilypond to support generating some basic >> braille inside an includable .ly file. > > Iirc,

Re: Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-26 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-10-26 15:15 GMT+02:00 Maurits Lamers : > Hi, > > I am writing an extension to lilypond to support generating some basic > braille inside an includable .ly file. Iirc, there were already some attempts to support it. Did you search the archieves? > I am trying to map the characters of lyric e

Multi-byte characters in Lyrics

2017-10-26 Thread Maurits Lamers
Hi, I am writing an extension to lilypond to support generating some basic braille inside an includable .ly file. I am trying to map the characters of lyric events into a set of braille dots. One of the issues I have is that I have trouble finding a way to do this with characters which seem to b