On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann <
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
> Am 12.04.2014 18:10, schrieb stefano franchi:
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann <
>> engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 11.04.2014 17:45, schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
>>>
>>> Slightly off topic: I am trying to get umlaute in a Lilypond Lyx file,
>>> e.g.
>>> \markup {
>>> \vspace #1
>>> \fontsize #1 {
>>> Sakura, sakura, der Frühlingshimmel,
>>> }
>>> }
>>> The Umlaute ue is not displayed.
>>> I have tried various proposals made in the internet,
>>> but had no success -converting in a text editor into UTF8 before
>>> importing, using octal code ..
>>>
>>> Could somebody give me a solution?
>>>
>>> Wolfgang
>>>
>>> Recommended is to use a text editor which changes the coding to UTF8. I
>>> used jedit for it.
>>> However, inserting the text in the ERT of my lilypond lyx file did not
>>> help:
>>> The Umlaute (diacritics) e.g. ü = ue are not shown in the pdf output;
>>> instead the vowel is not shown at all, no space:
>>> Hügel (Huegel) is shown as Hgel.
>>>
>>>
>>> Wolfgang, are you sure you are using a font that in fact includes the
>> proper glyph for the UTF8-addressed umlaut? If the pdf simply skips it,
>> there are a good chances it is a font-related issue.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Stefano
>>
>> Thanks, Stefano, I used new century schoolbook and most of the other one
> ( tried AE Palatino Bitstream Bookman Utopia Zapf .. )
> but there are others not yet available. Which one would be suitable?
>
Have you tried Libertine? The font itself is not great, but it has a pretty
good coverage. You may also want to try the the TeX Gyre fonts (TG Termes,
etc).
Which backend are you using? pdflatex or XeLaTeX/LuaTeX?
Cheers,
Stefano
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