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 characters called "Umlaut" and the ess-tzet. Then I used the program recode as follows: recode latin1..utf8 umlaute So I got the UTF-8-Symbols Afterwards I wrote the following into my .vimrc: autocmd BufRead *.ly imap ä À autocmd BufRead *.ly imap ö ö autocmd BufRead *.ly imap ü ÃŒ autocmd BufRead *.ly imap Ä Ã autocmd BufRead *.ly imap Ö Ã autocmd BufRead *.ly imap Ü Ã autocmd BufRead *.ly imap ß Ã So I can type ä (a-Umlaut) and get the corresponding UTF-8-Symbol. And it works! Thank You for the help! :-) Best Regards Roland _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user