Hi Hraban, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <lilypon...@fiee.net> wrote: > Hi, > as far as I scanned the thread nobody analyzed the problem of the shifted > umlaut diacritic.
true, but i did find the root cause. ;) > > You might look up „composed“ vs. „decomposed“ Unicode - e.g. OSX uses (or > used to use in previous versions) decomposed Unicode, where always > „composing“ diacritics are used, opposite to complete glyphs. (That caused me > some headache when I read directory trees with a Python script and wrote TeX > markup from it, while TeX didn’t understand composed Unicode glyphs. Of > course Python’s Unicode handling can fix it, but you have to know about it.) > > So, I guess some software on your way decomposed your umlauts, and your PDF > viewer can’t cope with it - did you try another PDF viewer? Is the display > the same on different OSs? somewhere in bouncing between OS X, linux and (seldom) windows, this umlaut became decomposed. or was entered decomposed. (I can't remember which computer i wrote _those_ lines of code on). Didn't really matter whether I was viewing the file on OS X (with preview) or evince on linux -- the umlaut was shifted and two squares, rather than 2 round dots over the U. sooo: > If it’s in all viewers, the problem may be again in your version of pango. maybe. the ligature problem occurs with the 64-bit version of pango shipped with lilypond, but doesn't with the 32-bit version. maybe the 32-bit version doesn't have problems with decomposed diacriticals, but as i fixed my input file before installing the 32-bti version of lilypond, i can't really test that immediately. and testing it ranks rather low on my priority list right now -- currently it works. what i will test, as soon as i get round to it, is if i can get lilypond from the distribution .tgz to use my installed pango libraries rather than the bundled ones -- at the moment, i can only generate scores with ligatures on my linux box, which isn't my main working machine... regards, sb -- Do not meddle in the affairs of trombonists, for they are subtle and quick to anger. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
