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Re: umlaut trouble; was Weird output
From: |
David Bobroff |
Subject: |
Re: umlaut trouble; was Weird output |
Date: |
Mon, 21 May 2007 19:37:21 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) |
Thanks, the italic umlaut problem turned out to be a problem with JPedal
(jEdit's PDF viewer). When viewed with Acrobat Reader the italic
umlauts were fine. As for the problem in the lyrics it turned out to be
a file encoding issue.
-David
Fred Leason wrote:
> David:
>
> Can't help you with windows.
>
> However on OS X (Lilypond 2.10.20) the italic umlauts printed fine. I
> used TexShop which is a confirmed "UTF-8 Unicode" editor.
>
> Furthermore, your email (X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0; Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit) came
> through to my Apple Mail client including the umlauts. As long as this
> was the original file you cut and pasted, I don't think your editor
> mangled it.
>
> My SWAG: Check what fonts are available on your machine.
>
> On May 11, 2007, at 12:32 PM, David Bobroff wrote:
>
>> I'm post this to both bug- and -user as I'm not sure what's going on.
>> The following file is essentially self-explanatory:
>>
>>
>> %%% BEGIN LILYPOND FILE
>>
>> \version "2.10.20" %% On Windows
>>
>> \header {
>> title = \markup {
>> %% commenting out \italic allows proper rendering
>> \italic
>> "äëïöüÿ"
>> }
>> }
>>
>> \score {
>> \relative c' {
>> c1
>> }
>> }
>>
>> %%% END LILYPOND FILE
>>
>> Leaving in '\italic' causes every umlaut to be rendered incorrectly.
>> It's looks rather like a single curly quote on its side.
>>
>> I stumbled upon this problem in an odd way. My Linux laptop, where I
>> prefer to do my Lily work had something go wrong. There's some problem
>> with Xwindows. I was able to run it without X running and managed to
>> upload some work I did not have duplicated elsewhere. I simply uploaded
>> it to my web space and then downloaded it to another machine running
>> Windows. I was making some minor edits (jEdit) and some test prints.
>> All was well for a while. Then I noticed some anomalies. In a lyric an
>> umlaut-a had become an upper case A with tilde followed by the universal
>> currency symbol (I think). The lower case 'u' with grave was also
>> different. This was obviously some sort of encoding issue. I would
>> suppose something happened to these characters when they were placed on
>> the web server, or on their way back to me.
>>
>> I was able to correct the 'u' with grave but not the umlaut-a nor any
>> other umlauted vowel. It's puzzling as I have gone through and tried
>> editing the input but in the case of the umlaut-a in the lyric line at
>> prints as A-tilde currency in the PDF.
>>
>> Help?
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
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