Re: Need help with this simple lyric

Mats, I think I figured it out, sort off. The Maltese cross character (U+2720) is part of the dingbats unicode code block. On a windows XP machine this character is part of the Wingdings font family. The Wingdings fonts do not have unicode definitions. So Lilypond gets confused and

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Quoting peterwinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gilles, so I have the character encoding as UTF-8. How do I insert a special character like U+2720 (maltese cross) in Jedit? Exactly the same way as you do in any other program. Either copy/paste from some other document or use the Character Palette or

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Quoting peterwinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mats, how do you do this in Jedit. I've tried to find out but still have not figured it out. Do you need the Lilytool plugin for jedit? I've never used Jedit myself, but a quick look in the Jedit manual reveals that there is a full section devoted to

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how do you do this [ UTF-8 encoding ] in Jedit. utilities Global Options general Choose UTF-8 in Default character encoding Gilles ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

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is appreciated. The Lilypond code is as follows. I am running Lilypond version 2.10.25 http://www.nabble.com/file/p11674032/matins1_a.ly matins1_a.ly -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Need-help-with-this-simple-lyric-tf4104956.html#a11674032 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond

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Re: Need help with this simple lyric

Dominic Neumann schrieb: For italicizing the word Officiant I tried to put this before the \set ... command: \override VocalName #'font-shape = #'italic But it didn´t work. If you say LyricText instead of VocalName it works, but that´s not what you wanted. Use \override

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Re: Need help with this simple lyric

Just make sure to save the file using UTF-8 encoding and simply insert the symbol directly into the file. There shouldn't be any reason to use \char. /Mats peterwinson wrote: tabster wrote: Hi Peter, to let LilyPond treat more syllables as one, easily encloses these in ... On my