Re: lyrics problems: Bar_engraver, ß (SS) , ü, hyphens

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> The problem is that when LilyPond tries to calculate the horizontal
> space occupied by each syllable, it doesn't realize that the
> \"u is just one character and therefore thinks that syllables
> J\"un and t\"o are much longer than they actually are. The consequence
> is that the hyphen is placed too far to the right.
> 
> The simple solution is to directly enter the Latin1 encoded characters
> instead: Jün -- ger tö -- richt ...
> By chance, these characters will show up correctly in the output, since
> they have the same character code in Latin1 as in the T1 encoding of the
> font used.

another option is to switch on the "TeX"  encoding described in the
manual.

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