Bernard Hill commented: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I. Oppenheim | >To use accented letter, type the following: | >\`a => "a with grave" | >\'a => "a with acute" | >\"a => "a with umlaut" | >\^o => "o with circumflex" | >\~n => "n with tilde" | >\,c => "c with cedilla" | > | | What's wrong with simply putting the correct accent in the text? | | � � � � � � | | They're all part of the extended character set, and pretty much a | standard these days.
Yeah; I've done that in a few tunes. The problem is that it only works for people with 8859-1 (Latin-1) software. It'll look really funny to someone in, say, Poland or Thailand. It also leads to complaints from a lot of Americans using Windows, whose software can do some rather imaginitive things with such characters. We've had a few mentions of this problem in the past, but no really good solutions. Putting your abc in unicode form would help a lot, but most people wouldn't know how to do this, and unicode support is still far from universal. A problem I keep coming up with: I have a lot of music with lyrics in several languages. Most of the gimmicks for saying what character set you're using are on a whole-file basis. But what I'd like to do is mix English, Finnish, Russian and Yiddish text in the same tune. I wonder if we can come up with a simple scheme for doing this in abc? To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
