Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Raphael Mankin
On 03/07/2024 20:33, Simon Albrecht wrote: Hi Valentin, On 03.07.24 14:31, Valentin Petzel wrote: I’ve taken some time to create a function for decoding html-style entities. wow, that’s a great bit of initiative! I’m really sorry that only upon seeing this I remembered the text-replacemen

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 04 juillet 2024 à 08:09 +0100, Raphael Mankin a écrit : > I already use these, but they are incomplete. > > Thanks to all who replied; I obviously struck a nerve, and i10n is still > an issue in spite of utf8. I beg to differ. IMHO, entering special characters is an OS-level problem; p

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
For what it's worth, Frescobaldi also has a "special characters" window you can spawn where you can insert them directly. It's a bit annoying to have to switch from keyboard to mouse to click them, but otherwise it works fine for direct input (how annoying it is probably depends on just how frequen

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 04.07.24 09:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/ascii-aliases https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/list-of-special-characters I already use these, but they are incomplete. Assuming that you are referring to French characters w

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 04.07.24 11:14, N. Andrew Walsh wrote: I suppose it'd be also possible if you're wrapping your .ly file inside some latex-ly .tex file to use LaTeX's syntax for accented characters Certainly the reason why #(include-special-characters) was developed, see my other reply in the thread. Bes

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Raphael Mankin
On 04/07/2024 09:57, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le jeudi 04 juillet 2024 à 08:09 +0100, Raphael Mankin a écrit : I already use these, but they are incomplete. Thanks to all who replied; I obviously struck a nerve, and i10n is still an issue in spite of utf8. I beg to differ. IMHO, entering sp

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2024-07-04 Thread Kenneth Flak
Hi list, I've started learning me a bit of emacs, and I would love to get lilypond working with it as well... However, the installation instructions in the documentation left me a bit baffled. It *seems* I should be able to just require the lilypond files, as they are nicely tucked away in

Emacs setup

2024-07-04 Thread Kenneth Flak
"Kenneth Flak" writes: Sorry, forgot to add subject... Still getting used to mu4e :-D Kenneth > Hi list, > > I've started learning me a bit of emacs, and I would love to get > lilypond working with it as well... However, the installation > instructions in the documentation left me a bit baffled.

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le jeudi 04 juillet 2024 à 15:21 +0100, Raphael Mankin a écrit : > It is partly an OS problem,  but also that no common keyboard (or > keyboard layout) contains  the complete set of Latin characters. Not sure how far what you call the “complete set of Latin characters” extends, but if you somehow

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Anyhow, I persist in my opinion that facilitating the input of > accented characters is best done at a level different than LilyPond. +1 Werner

Re: beam subdivision problem

2024-07-04 Thread Jason Yip
On 2024-07-03 22:06, Werner LEMBERG - wl(a)gnu.org wrote: Even though you want this special subdivision at just one point in your example, do you have examples where this special subdivision occurs at multiple points in the same beam? My former suggestion acts as a offset of # of beamlets for eve

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Valentin Petzel
Am Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2024, 17:48:12 MESZ schrieb Jean Abou Samra: > Anyhow, I persist in my opinion that facilitating the input of accented > characters is best done at a level different than LilyPond. I do agree only partially. Yes, if we reduce the problem of special characters to input then

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> And so while I do agree that if the problem can be solved before > Lilypond actually matter, then great. But if this does not work out > to you, then nothings wrong with getting Lilypond to help you out. Certainly! However, this shouldn't become part of LilyPond IMHO; it's opening a can of wor

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Valentin Petzel
Am Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2024, 18:41:56 MESZ schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > > And so while I do agree that if the problem can be solved before > > Lilypond actually matter, then great. But if this does not work out > > to you, then nothings wrong with getting Lilypond to help you out. > > > Certainly!

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Certainly! However, this shouldn't become part of LilyPond IMHO; >> it's opening a can of worms since all those sets are essentially >> open-ended – "why is character 'fronz with grmpf above' not part of >> this or that set?" > > Yes, but here the extensibility comes into play. If you want to

Re: beam subdivision problem

2024-07-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 11:07 PM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > OK, here are some scans that I've found. As you can see, this kind of > subdivision is not so special as previously assumed. > > * Jehan Alain, trois danses – Deuils (for organ), (publisher: Leduc) > > * Prokofiev, piano sonata 7, op. 83,

Re: beam subdivision problem

2024-07-04 Thread Jason Yip
On 2024-07-04 09:09, Jason Yip - sripedia_getpgrp(a)slmail.me wrote: On 2024-07-03 22:06, Werner LEMBERG - wl(a)gnu.org wrote: Even though you want this special subdivision at just one point in your example, do you have examples where this special subdivision occurs at multiple points in the sam

Re: Emacs setup

2024-07-04 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. Le jeu. 4 juil. 2024 à 17:05, Kenneth Flak a écrit : > > "Kenneth Flak" writes: > > Sorry, forgot to add subject... Still getting used to mu4e :-D > Kenneth > > > Hi list, > > > > I've started learning me a bit of emacs, and I would love to get > > lilypond working with it as well... Howe

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Raphael Mankin
On 04/07/2024 16:48, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le jeudi 04 juillet 2024 à 15:21 +0100, Raphael Mankin a écrit : Anyhow, I persist in my opinion that facilitating the input of accented characters is best done at a level different than LilyPond. I don't disagree with you. Using a compose key

Re: French lyrics and accented characters

2024-07-04 Thread Valentin Petzel
Am Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2024, 18:52:22 MESZ schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > >> Certainly! However, this shouldn't become part of LilyPond IMHO; > >> it's opening a can of worms since all those sets are essentially > >> open-ended – "why is character 'fronz with grmpf above' not part of > >> this or that

Re: Emacs setup

2024-07-04 Thread Ben Bradshaw
For me on Arch, I have to do this in my emacs init file: (autoload 'LilyPond-mode "lilypond-mode") (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.lyi$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (add-hook 'LilyPond-mode-hook (lambda