Re: Apostrophe help please

[David Bobroff]

Marguerite Plank wrote:
> Is there anything I can do to get a true apostrophe (right single quote)
> to display correctly in the title of this piece? In the current example,
> the space on either side of the glyph is unacceptable. One could use a
> prime instead of a quote, but I regard that as also unacceptable..
> 
> Earlier, I tried replacing the prime character in the pdf, but then the
> first line of the score shifted.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marguerite
> 
> code below:
> =========================
> 
> \version "2.10.20-1"
> 
> \include "english.ly"
> 
> #(set-global-staff-size 18)
> 
> \paper {
>           #(set-paper-size "letter")
>           left-margin = 2.5\cm
>           line-width = 15\cm
>           between-system-padding = #-2
>           between-system-spacing = #-2
>            }
> 
> \header {
> 
>          title = ""
>          poet = \markup { \override #'(font-name . "CaslonAntique")
> \fontsize #3 "2. Astley"
>                     \override #'(font-name . "CaslonAntique")  \fontsize
> #3 #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x2019))
>                      \override #'(font-name . "CaslonAntique") \fontsize
> #3 "s"  }
>          composer = \markup { \override #'(font-name . "News Gothic
> Italic") "hornpipe"  }
>          tagline = ""
>    }
> 

Changing the "poet" header to this:

poet = \markup { \override #'(font-name . "CaslonAntique") \fontsize #3
"2. Astley’s"}

...works for me.  IMPORTANT--> Be sure to save the input file as UTF-8
and get the correct character for the apostrophe/single right quote.  I
did this with Windows and got it from the character map.

-David