Re: Copyright symbol

[Brett Duncan]

David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> There appears to be no way of inserting a copyright © symbol in
> lilypond 1.12.1. U+xxx, ©, © and © 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, © 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 not correct. The US Copyright Office requires:

the symbol © (the letter C in a circle)
OR the word “Copyright”
OR the abbreviation “Copr.”

for copyright notice on a document - however, as of March 1, 1989, the 
US now applies the Berne Convention, bringing it into line with most of 
the rest of the world, and a copyright notice is not absolutely to 
secure copyright (though obviously still a good thing to do).

Having said that, it would be good to determine why it's not working for 
all. (It certainly works for me.)

One question that comes to mind is whether or not the problem lies in 
the PDF reader being used rather than the PDF itself. Have you tried a 
different PDF reader?

Brett