Re: "à" in title makes damaged pdf

[Colin Hall]

yvand writes:

> Hi lilypond developpers,
>
> I wanted to type the well-known composition "Für Elise" in lilypond for a 
> friend.
> Unfortunately, the PDF generated by lilypond was damaged (according to evince,
> gimp, inkscape)! After some tests, I found what was the problem.
> The title was "Lettre à Élise" (translation in French of "Letter for Elise"),
> and the character "à" in the title was the origin of the problem! (same 
> problem
> in other header fields)
> It seems so odd, amazing for me that only this "special" character was the
> problem. Indeed, other "special" characters (such as é, É, è, È, ç, Ç, ù, Ù, À
> (à uppercase!) etc) works fine!
>
> PS : Sorry for my bad English.
>

Here is an update on your bug report, Yvand.

The bug you reported is due to a known problem in Ghostscript. The
Ghostscript team have fixed their software but we had not yet adopted
the fix in Lilypond. For more information, see:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2985

David Kastrup has fixed Lilypond.

We expect your problem to be fixed in the next unstable release of
Lilypond.

Cheers,
Colin.
Bug squad.

-- 
Colin Hall