Re: collision of latin and non-latin text

[Erik Sandberg]

On Saturday 05 November 2005 00.27, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Markian Hlynka wrote:
> > Hi, I'm going to repeat part of what I posted to lilypond-user  because
> > I described it better there:
> >
> > I'm inputting cyrillic text. I've noticed that if cyrillic and latin
> > text coincide in the same block, they collide in a mess. Is this a
> > known problem? Basically if I write:
> >
> >
> > \header{
> >  title = "<cyrillic> <latin> <cyrillic>"
> > }
> >
> > where the bits in <> are some of each type of text (with spaces  around
> > them even!), the result on the score will be <cyri########ic>  where ##
> > indicates overlapped text. I've tried this in other places  as well,
> > always with the same result (eg composer and arranger tags).  The
> > exception is that this problem does NOT seem to occur within
> > \lyricmode, though I haven't tested it thoroughly. \lyricmode { one  --
> > two -- три -- four } seems to work OK.
> >
> >
> > I've attached an example, but I don't know if the list will accept  it,
> > though it's small.
> >
> >
> > Any workarounds, or confirmation of a known bug, or anything?
>
> known bug, fixed in 2.7.something; workaround:

It's not yet completely fixed: Some spaces are removed sometimes. See 
utf8-string-space.ly.

-- 
Erik