Re: Font questions

[Father Gordon Gilbert]

Thanks so far, Bertalan,

But I'm still getting errors.  When I put "8" as a syllable on its own, it prints fine, but when I put it in the middle of a syllable with some other letters, it throws a completely irrelevant error.  So I put this in my lyrics " -- "8" -- " as a syllable on its own and it's fine, but with the word "Ie -- so"8"s" it tells me a whole bunch of errors such as the following (from the console):
%lilypond %args "C:\Documents and Settings\Fr Gorden Gilbert\Desktop\LilyPond Files\Huron Carol.ly"
Processing `C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly'
Parsing...
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:36:23: error: not a duration: 3
    \set stanza = "
                       3."    
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:49:13: error: Grob name should be alphanumeric
    \set 
             Staff.midiInstrument="choir aahs"
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:49:41: error: syntax error, unexpected LYRICS_STRING, expecting '='
    \set Staff.midiInstrument="choir 
                                         aahs"
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:127:16: error: unknown escaped string: `\staffSoprano'
        
                \staffSoprano
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:127:16: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
        
                \staffSoprano
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:130:86: error: unknown escaped string: `\verseII'
        \context Lyrics = "lmelodySopLII" \lyricmode  { \lyricsto "melodySop" 
                                                                                      \verseII }
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:130:86: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
        \context Lyrics = "lmelodySopLII" \lyricmode  { \lyricsto "melodySop" 
                                                                                      \verseII }
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:132:87: error: unknown escaped string: `\verseIII'
        \context Lyrics = "lmelodySopLIII" \lyricmode  { \lyricsto "melodySop" 
                                                                                       \verseIII }
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:132:87: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
        \context Lyrics = "lmelodySopLIII" \lyricmode  { \lyricsto "melodySop" 
                                                                                       \verseIII }
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:134:88: error: unknown escaped string: `\verseIIII'
        \context Lyrics = "lmelodySopLIIII" \lyricmode  { \lyricsto "melodySop" 
                                                                                        \verseIIII }
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:134:88: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
        \context Lyrics = "lmelodySopLIIII" \lyricmode  { \lyricsto "melodySop" 
                                                                                        \verseIIII }
C:/Documents and Settings/Fr Gorden Gilbert/Desktop/LilyPond Files/Huron Carol.ly:126:8: error: errors found, ignoring music _expression_
    
        <<
error: failed files: "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Fr Gorden Gilbert\\Desktop\\LilyPond Files\\Huron Carol.ly"
Processing time: 2 seconds

LilyPond ready.
 

And the *only* change was to change a 'u' to an "8"

Also, I'm not getting an e(acute) in Brebeuf, even though I'm in UTF-8

Help!

Thanks,

Gordon+

On 26/11/2009, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <address@hidden> wrote:

Use quotes:

\addlyrics { "8" }

Father Gordon Gilbert wrote:

Hi all,

Perhaps someone can help me here.  I'm trying to set the Huron Carol (old hymn written by St Jean de Brebeuf in the 1640s).  I'm having trouble with his name, which requires an e (accent aigu), and I'm getting a couple of strange characters in the output.  Also, in the vers in the original Wendat language, the common way to depict one certain sound is with an "8", but Lily won't let me put that in lyrics.

Using Lily 2.13.0, with jEdit LilyPondTool -- I *think* with UTF-8 (how can I be sure?)

Can somebody help me straighten up the accent and character problem?

Thanks,

Gordon+