[Cc the list so that others can follow the issue.] The app should have a way to handle that. For example, Mail and TextEdit have the menu Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement toggle. I have though smart quotes and dashes turned off, as they can be easily reached from the keyboard at need, and for the replacements, I have my own set for typing math, in fact more than a thousand which I created with a C++ program I wrote.
> On 8 Mar 2021, at 16:45, Joe O'Farrell <i...@joeofarrell.com> wrote: > > Hi Hans > > Many thanks! > > So I have to turn text subs off globally? (Or at least, that particular one, > while using LilyPond). It would be handy if there were a way to set them on > an app-by-app basis… Not a major problem, but it had never caused any > problems before, hence my question (I suspect there was a tweak to font > handling in the upgrade.) > > I’ve hitherto worked in LilyPond “in the raw”, but I’ll have a look at > Frescobaldi > > Thanks again, > > Joe > >> On 8 Mar 2021, at 09:36, Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 8 Mar 2021, at 03:53, Joe O'Farrell <i...@joeofarrell.com> wrote: >>> >>> Apologies if this has been raised before (though I did look!) but there >>> seems to be a problem with the LilyPond text editor on Mac whereby >>> apostrophes are replaced by a “curly” version which isn’t recognised by the >>> compiler, triggering a “not a note name error”. Tried re-installing, but as >>> you can see, even the built-in demo fails: >> >> These are called text substitutions, and can be changed at System >> Preferences → Keyboard → Text, and should be possible to be turned off >> within the text editor. For example, I typed the arrows by setting "->" to >> be substituted into "→". >> >> Frescobaldi does not seem to support those, so you might try that app >> instead. >> > _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
