Re: German text characters

2006-05-25 Thread Stephen
omplaining to Graham about is Alt + 0 + 246. If you want, or need, I can e-mail the list I downloaded from the web. Thanks Graham and Stephen. Regards, Michael - Original Message - From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: German Text Characters

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen
- Original Message - From: "zrlaszlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:27 AM Subject: Re: German Text Characters Unfortunately, you have not told us, what OS and Lilypond version you are using (Linux or Windows). Anyway, the solution below s

Re: German text characters

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen
- Original Message - From: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bears388" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:50 PM Subject: Re: German text characters On 23-May-06, at 3:39 AM, bears388 wrote: Downloaded the 2.8.2 Manual, a

Re: German text characters

2006-05-24 Thread zrlaszlo
Hi, there is a reply on 23rd May, 2006, here: http://www.nabble.com/German+Text+Characters-t1667271.html I cut&paste here a file I made for testing purposes before I replied to you. Try to generate a .pdf. I would like to hear about how it works. I know not too much german, so, if I wrote somethi

Re: German text characters

2006-05-24 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-May-06, at 1:27 AM, bears388 wrote: Sorry, it's me, again ... Found two entries in the mailist archives:- Read these threads: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-01/msg00391.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-01/msg00015.html Cheers, - Graham

Re: German text characters

2006-05-23 Thread Graham Percival
On 23-May-06, at 3:39 AM, bears388 wrote: Downloaded the 2.8.2 Manual, and found the entries the same. I also got a unicode character set, but no matter what I try, writing the characters in unicode and saving them as utf-8 and then cutting and pasting,I cannot get the umlauts on any letters

Re: German Text Characters

2006-05-23 Thread zrlaszlo
Unfortunately, you have not told us, what OS and Lilypond version you are using (Linux or Windows). Anyway, the solution below should work. Just make sure you have German keyboard support installed on your system. Since lilypond 2.6 (I think) UTF-8 input is supported. There is no need to use speci

Re: German text characters

2006-05-21 Thread Graham Percival
On 21-May-06, at 11:20 PM, Michael Phillips wrote: How can I get umlaut a, e and o (and double-s) into the German text of a Bach cantata? I believe there is a way by using \markup and \char #n, but haven't discoved how. Insert the characters directly into the text. In the 2.8.2 manual, see