Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-16 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > Here's a 2.4.6 result. > Thanks, but this is related to the character encoding (version 2.4 only supported iso-8859-1) not representing the Hebrew letters. As of 2.6, this will come out fine. Finally, the problem was not with lilypond, but with the library it uses to lay out the text:

RE: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-16 Thread Fairchild
Gilles - Here's a 2.4.6 result. - Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilles Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:27 PM To: bug-lilypond@gnu.org Subject: Re: Inputting special symbols [The list moderator rejec

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Gilles
Hi. > If you want to concatenate two strings, one method is to > set the word-space property to zero: > \markup{\override #'(word-space . 0) \line {1\super st } clarinet } > Fine! It was the "\line" which I was missing... Thanks, Gilles ___ bug-lil

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Gilles
> > >I wonder whether we talk about the same thing... What do you mean by > >"render differently"? The postscript output from gedit is fine, while > >in the postscript output from lilypond, there is a sort of superposition > >of the string between parentheses onto the other string (so that the

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Gilles wrote: I wonder whether we talk about the same thing... What do you mean by "render differently"? The postscript output from gedit is fine, while in the postscript output from lilypond, there is a sort of superposition of the string between parentheses onto the other string (so that the

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Gilles
> > > > But you do obtain an illegible subtitle, right? If yes, then there is a > > problem with the line layout. When you look at the sentence in "gedit", > > it is displayed correctly, and "gedit" also prints it correctly. > > Apparently gedit and lilypond renders the string differently, but s

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 13 January 2006 17.25, Gilles wrote: > Hello. > > > > While in the second case, lilypond seems to be confused by the mixing > > > of right-to-left (parentheses) and left-to-right (Hebrew) characters, > > > so that the text line is "scrambled" (see attached "pdf" [1]). > > > > I don't know

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Friday 13 January 2006 21.34, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > If you want to concatenate two strings, one method is to > set the word-space property to zero: > \markup{\override #'(word-space . 0) \line {1\super st } clarinet } > > Of course, it's more convenient to hack together a \concatenate > markup

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you want to concatenate two strings, one method is to set the word-space property to zero: \markup{\override #'(word-space . 0) \line {1\super st } clarinet } Of course, it's more convenient to hack together a \concatenate markup command. /Mats

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Gilles
Hello. > > > While in the second case, lilypond seems to be confused by the mixing > > of right-to-left (parentheses) and left-to-right (Hebrew) characters, > > so that the text line is "scrambled" (see attached "pdf" [1]). > > I don't know how mixing of right-to-left and left-to-right is normal

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 12 January 2006 23.27, Gilles wrote: > [The list moderator rejected a previous post with this message; > so I had to remove the "pdf" attachment. Hopefully someone will > be kind enough to try and compile the attached lily file, and tell > me whether he gets the same result as I.] > >

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-12 Thread Gilles
[The list moderator rejected a previous post with this message; so I had to remove the "pdf" attachment. Hopefully someone will be kind enough to try and compile the attached lily file, and tell me whether he gets the same result as I.] > > > >Wouldn't it be more logical to do that by default, i

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Gilles wrote: Hi. because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components. I noticed that too, and I'd tend to consider this as a bug. no, it's the intended behaviour of markup. It could be possible to write a markup function that concatenates markup words,

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 15.39, Gilles wrote: > Hi. > > > > > because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components. > > > > > > I noticed that too, and I'd tend to consider this as a bug. > > > > no, it's the intended behaviour of markup. > > > > It could be possible to write a ma

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Gilles wrote: Then, maybe could you explain the rationale behind the intention? I.e for outputting the opposite of the user's input: 1. Add a space where there was none If you have a suggestion how to improve this, I will gladly take patches. The relevant code is in scm/markup.scm. 2.

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-11 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > > because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components. > > > > I noticed that too, and I'd tend to consider this as a bug. > > no, it's the intended behaviour of markup. > > It could be possible to write a markup function that concatenates markup > words, something like \

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 05 January 2006 12.25, Gilles wrote: > Hello. > > > The problem I've had with that is that when I define > > > > eaigu = "" > > > > and then (later) say > > > > \markup "sym" \eaigu "trique" > > > > what I get in the PDF file is > > > > sym é trique > > > > because Lilypo

Re: Inputting special symbols

2006-01-05 Thread Gilles
Hello. > > The problem I've had with that is that when I define > > eaigu = "" > > and then (later) say > > \markup "sym" \eaigu "trique" > > what I get in the PDF file is > > sym é trique > > because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components. > I noticed t