Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 20:27:58 (-0700), madMuze wrote: > >> What I haven't figured out is why there are two long dashes > > As davidK pointed out, three dash forms are probably desired: the hyphen, > the N-dash, and the M-dash. I didn't see him mention the hyphen, but it's all present and

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 16:59:37 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > >> Thomas Morley writes: > >> > >> > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan > >> >

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

>> What I haven't figured out is why there are two long dashes As davidK pointed out, three dash forms are probably desired: the hyphen, the N-dash, and the M-dash. It does look like an extra M-dash at the beginning of your string (or is that some character code masquerading as a dash?). The

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

Hi David(s), >>> Doesn't really look like dealing sensibly with utf-8. > I was talking about the code, not the string There's no question it doesn’t handle UTF-8 sensibly: I had to avoid using it for a score a few weeks ago in which I was using a Ukrainian glyph ("backwards R"). I would very

Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

David Wright writes: > On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >> > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> When a lyric syllable

Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley writes: > > > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > >> Hi all, > >> > >> When a lyric syllable begins with a typographer’s single quote > >> (e.g.,