Re: grace notes

[Mats Bengtsson]

guy debrock wrote:

> Hi,
> As a novice to lilypond, I have encountered two stubborn problems for which I 
> have found no solution.
> 1. When I use grace notes (or appoggiaturas or acciaccaturas) the vertical 
> alignment (in a piano staff system) is messy.
>  
In what sense? Is it the problem described at the end of the section on 
grace notes
in the manual? Otherwise, I recommend you to include a small but complete
(so it can be run directly through lilypond) example in an email to the 
mailing
list.

> 2. In spite of many assurances that emacs (which I use as editor) supports 
> unicode (utf8), I have not been able to produce words that contain diacritical 
> characters. I have tried to use the code used in latex, but that doesn't work 
> either.
> Any help expressed in clear language will be appreciated.
>
>  
Unless you have some strange settings in your .emacs file, you can tell
Emacs to use UTF-8 in the current file by pressing
CTRL-x RETURN
and then
utf-8
and RETURN. The next time you save the file, it should be in UTF-8.
To make Emacs remember this setting for this particular file, the next time
you open it, you can add the following lines at the bottom of the file:
%%% Local Variables:
%%% coding: utf-8
%%% End:

There are also methods to tell Emacs to use UTF-8 encoding for all 
files, but
I'm not sure what else you use Emacs for.

  /Mats