On 24.11.2013, at 10:06, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Marc Hohl <m...@hohlart.de> writes:
>>
>>> Am 24.11.2013 09:35, schrieb David Kastrup:
>>> [...]
>>>> What's wrong with
>>>>
>>>> primo = "1º"
>>>> prima = "1ª"
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't that do the trick without further trickery?
>>>
>>> Well, the example png shows the "°" placed above the dot of "1.".
>>
>> You are using the wrong character here. What you use is
>>
>> name: DEGREE SIGN
>> general-category: So (Symbol, Other)
>> decomposition: (176) ('°')
>>
>> whereas the correct character is
>>
>> name: MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR
>> general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
>> decomposition: (super 111) (super 'o')
>>
>>> If the dot can be omitted, "1°" is probably just fine.
>>
>> My mastery of Spanish (and/or Portuguese?) is non-existing, but it would
>> seem like the name and existence of that glyph makes it likely that its
>> presence alone should be indicative of an ordinal number.
>
> Cf <URL:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/1%C2%BA>
How about
primero = \markup \concat { 1\char #186 }
primera = \markup \concat { 1\char #170 }
\score {
\new Staff { c''^\primero c''^\primera }
}
?
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