Re: Non-ASCII Characters and \header piece

[Mats Bengtsson]

At least if you have a reasonably new version of gedit, it
is possible to set the character encoding it uses when
saving files. This involves two steps:
- Set the environment variable LANG to en_US or en_UK or
  de_DE or fr_FR or whatever language code you prefer. This
  specifies the "locale" of your system and will change the
  language used in your programs. Also, as long as you specify
  a western European language, it will also specify that files
  should be saved with Latin1 encoding (also called ISO-8859-1).
- Start gedit, open Edit->Preferences, click on Save and mark
  "Use current locale's encoding" (note, separate settings for
  new and existing files).

Now, you can insert the characters directly, ß, ü, ä, ö, ç,
in your .ly file, both in lyrics and in titles and your editor
will save them using an encoding that LilyPond (or at least
LaTeX) will understand.

I can't understand your problem with the "piece" header field.
What error message do you get? (You may have to use lilypond --verbose
to see it).

   /Mats

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I (still) use lilypond 2.2.0 on Linux Kernel 2.4. with gedit.
>
> 1. I found here help for the german ß (I get it with \\\ss (without") in
> Lyrics. But the ß is disregarded for the spacing, so it comes to
> collisions and  the syllabe is not centered.
>
> 2. Also are working ü ö ä with \"u (or o or a) and \c{c} (cedilla)
>
>
> 3. In the Header, it is not so easy:
> ü comes with \\\"{u} (also ö and ä), and c-cedilla with \c{c},
>
> 4. but all that i tried (also try and error) never gave a ß.
> (I tried: \\\ss \\\{ss} \\\"{s} \\\{"s} \\\s \\\s{s}
> \ss \{ss} \"{s} \{"s} \s \s{s}
> (Of course, I cant put the words in "", because it has here another
> signification.)
>
> 5. Also the \header { piece = "Adagio" } doesnt work. Its ever make the
> compilation collapses, except when it is empty. \header { piece = "" }
>
> I would be pleased about some ideas! Thanks already from
>
> Fran\c{c}ois
>
>
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