Re: Inputting special symbols

[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, something like \concatenate { "sym" \eaigu "trique" }. I think such a 
> > function would be fairly easy to write, but I don't know because I haven't 
> > looked at the code. It might be a sponsorable feature.
> >    
>
> Wouldn't it be more logical to do that by default, instead of having
> to call a function explicitely to remove something (space) which wasn't
> there in the first place?
>  

The current behaviour is certainly logical and intuitive. Your proposal 
would
imply that a markup such as
\markup{\bold Allegro molto }
would appear as Allegromolto! Of course you are right that there should be
a way to concatenate markups. Some programming languages, like Java,
use a plus-sign or some other character to denote string concatenation,
sym + \eaigu + trique, but as Han-Wen would say, that's syntactic sugar.

In this particular case, it seems like a much better solution to use a 
text editor
that handles UTF-8, but that's of course another discussion.

  /Mats