Re: Copyright symbol

[Patrick McCarty]

Hi Dave,

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM, David Raleigh Arnold
<address@hidden> wrote:
> There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright (c) symbol in
> lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, &copy;, &#169; and (c) don't work. I notice that
> the manual's copyright may not be valid because the symbol is omitted.
> (c) is ugly, amateurish and not valid.
>
> In previous versions, (c) worked. How can I get the symbol? Do I have to
> downgrade? That would be a shame. The documentation improvements are
> sensational.
>
> You have much demonstration of "copyright = " in the docs, but never
> a symbol in a lilypond document, and the notice /is not valid/ without
> the symbol, so there is no usable example whatever.
>
> This is what appears to be the relevant message:
>
> \header {
>  title = "Stock Arrangement"
>  copyright = "(c)2009 An Author"
> }
>
> programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument
> continuing, cross fingers
> programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming.
> Skipping glyph U+FFFFFFFF,
> file 
> /home/dra/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/CenturySchL-Roma.otf
> continuing, cross fingers
>
> I used to get the message without the "skipping" part, and I got the
> glyph. No more.

I am able to print the copyright symbol just fine.

These programming errors will often occur when LY files are not saved
with UTF-8 encoding.

Can you double check to see this is the case?

-Patrick