Re: New alist to replace special characters. (issue4553056)

[Carl Sorensen]

On 7/31/11 11:41 AM, "address@hidden"
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I updated the patch.
> 
> There's now a list of special characters and a \replace command for
> markups.
> 
> The escape character is now '§'.  It's the only one that works great
> with lyrics.  And it isn't used elsewhere in LilyPond's syntax.

This escape is not available on US keyboards, so it's as much work to use
the escape character as to put in the UTF character directly.  For me, as a
US user, that seems to negate the purpose for the patch.

What was the problem with the previous escape characters?

Thanks,

Carl