Re: magic diacritic markup?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Trevor Baca writes:

> Is there a way to enter something like
>
>   Sch\{AUmlaut}flein

> directly in lilypond markup?

No.

> [Vim under OS X 10.4 (American keyboard, American install, etc) is
> angering me and I'd love a way to work around the editor using lower
> ASCII that's guaranteed to work anywhere.]

> Any in-line syntax or must I switch editors?

No.  VIM is a modern editor, it supports compose character in case
your operating system does not provide a multi key (I'm not sure if Os
X supports compose) and save as utf-8.

Jan.

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