Re: Non-unicode (UCS8 slavonic) fonts

[Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty]



Добрый день, брате !

Спаси Господи !

 

. your compiled file "lit_jedin_stroch.pdf" doesn't use slavonic characters, but regular russian ones.

. so I downloaded the source code. I couldn't find your "layout.ly", so I compiled it after adding a simple \layout {}. I see slavonic characters.

 

Yet, the font collections from irmologion.ru are NOT unicode compliant, but justly encoded in UCS. I understand that if one wants to use non-unicode font, he should not use #(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree ...

 

Germain G.I.T. 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Monk Panteleimon" <address@hidden>

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:40:52PM 
+0200, Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty wrote:
>> Hello all you Lilypond 
users,
>> 
> 
> Здраздвуйте.
> 
>> Is it 
possible to engrave (vocal) music with NON-UNICODE fonts for 
>> lyrics 
?
>> I try to engrave russian orthodox church music with the help of 
Lilypond. 
>> Most of my fonts are either non unicode, either not 
correctly handled by 
>> Lilypond. For example :
>> - UCS8 
Irmologion font collection : special encoding for slavonic texts
> 
> I have used a font which (I think) is from the same source 
> 
(from http://www.irmologion.ru) *with 
unicode encoding, and the accents
> come out fine. The font I am using is 
"Pochaevsk Ucs." I am running
> lilypond 2.10.25 on linux.
> 
> The file is here:
> http://www.tcgalaska.com/kliros/ly/lit_jedin_stroch.ly
> 
(compiled):
> http://www.tcgalaska.com/kliros/dload/lit_jedin_stroch.pdf
> 
> You also need ..../kliros/ly/kliros.ly & 
.../kliros/ly/layout.ly
> to compile it yourself.
> 
> 
Originally, I only used the font with accents in the title, but after
> 
reading your message I have tried it with the lyrics too, and it works
> 
-- with one catch.
> 
> As you can see in the file, the title is 
typed like this :
> 
> "Единоро1дный Сы1не"
> 
> with 
encoding set to utf8.
> 
> For me, the 1's produce the accent marks 
when the file is compiled.
> *But in the lyrics numbers are interpreted 
as
> durations, so the syllables with accents (breath marks, titlo, etc.) 
have to be inside quotes:
> 
> И2 "ны1" -- не и "при1" -- 
сно
> 
> In this example all the syllables are on half-note 
duration, and the syllables in
> quotes get an accent.
> 
> 
Thanks for asking this question.
> I don't know much about the irmologion 
fonts, so if you can tell me
> (off-list) how to get the proper "Я" in, 
for example, "Спасения" (in the third
> system) I would be 
grateful.
> 
> [8^)>
> 
> -- 
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