Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-23 Thread peterwinson
Gilles, that worked. Thank you! Peter Gilles THIBAULT wrote: > > > >> >> Mats, I think I figured it out, sort off. The Maltese cross character >> (U+2720) is part of the dingbats unicode code block. On a windows XP >> machine this character is part of the Wingdings font family. The >> Wi

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-23 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Mats, I think I figured it out, sort off. The Maltese cross character (U+2720) is part of the dingbats unicode code block. On a windows XP machine this character is part of the Wingdings font family. The Wingdings fonts do not have unicode definitions. So Lilypond gets confused and Jedit

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-22 Thread peterwinson
Mats, I think I figured it out, sort off. The Maltese cross character (U+2720) is part of the dingbats unicode code block. On a windows XP machine this character is part of the Wingdings font family. The Wingdings fonts do not have unicode definitions. So Lilypond gets confused and Jedit gets

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting peterwinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gilles, so I have the character encoding as UTF-8. How do I insert a special character like U+2720 (maltese cross) in Jedit? Exactly the same way as you do in any other program. Either copy/paste from some other document or use the "Character Palette"

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-21 Thread peterwinson
Gilles, so I have the character encoding as UTF-8. How do I insert a special character like U+2720 (maltese cross) in Jedit? Gilles THIBAULT wrote: > > >> how do you do this [ UTF-8 encoding ] in Jedit. > > > "utilities" > "Global Options "> "general" > > Choose UTF-8 in "Default characte

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-21 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
how do you do this [ UTF-8 encoding ] in Jedit. "utilities" > "Global Options "> "general" Choose UTF-8 in "Default character encoding" Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting peterwinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Mats, how do you do this in Jedit. I've tried to find out but still have not figured it out. Do you need the Lilytool plugin for jedit? I've never used Jedit myself, but a quick look in the Jedit manual reveals that there is a full section devoted to

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-20 Thread peterwinson
Mats, how do you do this in Jedit. I've tried to find out but still have not figured it out. Do you need the Lilytool plugin for jedit? Peter Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > > Just make sure to save the file using UTF-8 encoding > and simply insert the symbol directly into the file. > There should

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just make sure to save the file using UTF-8 encoding and simply insert the symbol directly into the file. There shouldn't be any reason to use \char. /Mats peterwinson wrote: tabster wrote: Hi Peter, to let LilyPond treat more syllables as one, easily encloses these in " ... " On my (

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-19 Thread peterwinson
tabster wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > to let LilyPond treat more syllables as one, easily encloses these in " > ... " > > On my (2.10.20) system the file compiles, but doesn´t show the cross > character. I would copy the character itself into the source code and > enclose it in "..." together with

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-19 Thread Maximilian Albert
Dominic Neumann schrieb: > For italicizing the word "Officiant" I tried to put this before the > \set ... command: > > \override VocalName #'font-shape = #'italic > > But it didn´t work. If you say LyricText instead of VocalName it > works, but that´s not what you wanted. Use \override Instr

Re: Need help with this simple lyric

2007-07-18 Thread Dominic Neumann
Hi Peter, to let LilyPond treat more syllables as one, easily encloses these in " ... " On my (2.10.20) system the file compiles, but doesn´t show the cross character. I would copy the character itself into the source code and enclose it in "..." together with the O like "+ O". I don´t see what