Re: anglosaxian

[Mats Bengtsson]

That's quick feedback! I changed the formulation yesterday
and get this feedback within 24 hours.

I have changed the formulation and talk about US-ASCII instead.

Thanks

  /Mats

David Bobroff wrote:
> Starting at line 200 the file lilypond-book.itely says:
>
> LilyPond does not use the LaTeX font handling scheme for lyrics and text
> markups, so if you use non-anglosaxian characters in your lilypond-book
> documents, include @address@hidden@}} in the file
> header but do not include @address@hidden@}}. Character
> sets other than latin1 are not supported directly but may be handled by
> explicitly specifying the @code{font-name} property in LilyPond and
> using the corresponding LaTeX packages. Please consult the mailing list
> for more details.
>
> Firstly, "non-anglosaxian" should be "non-Anglo-Saxon."  But, and
> perhaps more to the point, Anglo-Saxon includes such charaters as 'eth',
> 'thorn' and 'aesc' (the ligature 'ae').  All of these characters exist
> above character code 127 making them non-US-ASCII.  These characters are
> all part of [T1], or [latin1] or iso-8859-1.   Does "non-anglosaxian"
> need to be changed to "non-US-ASCII" instead?
>
> -David
>
>
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