special characters in lyricmode

2006-04-06 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hi, using 2.8.1 I couldn't find out in the user archives how to get special charakters like german ess-tzet (ß) in lyricmode. In one answer-e-mail from Mats Bengtsson I could read the three forms \ss \"s '\ss{}' , but all of them don't work on my system (debian-linux with vim). Thanks for any hi

Re: special characters in lyricmode

2006-04-06 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Where did you search? This is certainly a very common question that has been answered multiple times and is also answered in the manual, see the section on "Text encoding". /Mats Roland Goretzki wrote: Hi, using 2.8.1 I couldn't find out in the user archives how to get special charakters li

Re: special characters in lyricmode

2006-04-06 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Mats, thank You for the very fast answer! You wrote: > Where did you search? This is certainly a very common question that has > been answered multiple times and is also answered in the manual, see the > section on "Text encoding". Now I read at this point: To use a Unicode esc

Re: special characters in lyricmode

2006-04-06 Thread Geoff Horton
> Now I read at this point: > To use a Unicode escape sequence, use > #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x2014)) If you have a UTF-8 compatible text editor, you should be able to type the character you want directly into your input file. Geoff ___ lily

Re: special characters in lyricmode

2006-04-06 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Geoff, You wrote: > If you have a UTF-8 compatible text editor, you should be able to type > the character you want directly into your input file. On my machine I'm using latin1, and so with Your hint I found another solution now: I created a file "umlaute" with the six special

Re: special characters in lyricmode

2006-04-06 Thread David Feuer
On 4/6/06, Roland Goretzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I got the UTF-8-Symbols > > Afterwards I wrote the following into my .vimrc: > > So I can type ä (a-Umlaut) and get the corresponding UTF-8-Symbol. > And it works! Have you looked at the Vim ^k command ? (help i_^k) That lets you enter a

Re: special characters in lyricmode

2006-04-09 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello David, You wrote: > Have you looked at the Vim ^k command ? (help i_^k) > That lets you enter a lot of things as two-letter combos. (try, for > example, ^ka: when you're in insert mode). I've had no time the last days for that, but now. :-) Knowing a lot of vi, I can't unders