I am new to Lilypond and need to typeset some simple music with lyrics. So
this is what I have
http://www.nabble.com/file/p11674032/matins1_a.png
What I need to do now is to italicize the word "Officiant" and get Lilypond
to treat the cross character and the letter "O" as one syllable. Any he
tabster wrote:
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> Hi Peter,
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> to let LilyPond treat more syllables as one, easily encloses these in "
> ... "
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> 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
file.
> There shouldn't be any reason to use \char.
>
>/Mats
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> peterwinson wrote:
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>>tabster wrote:
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>>>Hi Peter,
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>>>to let LilyPond treat more syllables as one, easily encloses these in "
>>>.
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:
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>> how do you do this [ UTF-8 encoding ] in Jedit.
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> "utilities" > "Global Options "> "general"
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> Choose UTF-8 in "Default characte
confused. Thanks for your help.
Peter
Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote:
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> Quoting peterwinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>> 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, that worked. Thank you!
Peter
Gilles THIBAULT wrote:
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>> 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
I have read the horizontal spacing section in the manual and have tried to
replicated the code in my own ly file but \override SpacingSpanner
#'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) doesn't seem to work.
Here is what I want to do. The music is composed mostly of 1/8 notes. So
if I make
