> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to write LilyPond lyrics with national symbols
> (ex. lithuanian)? Or should I edit the resulting TeX file?
> Thanks,
>
> Andrius
Lilypond itself will copy any character in the lyrics verbatim
to the output, so you could get any national character either
using a TeX macro like '\"{a}' or using the 8-bit ISO-8859-x
encoding '�'. The problem with both these solutions is that
Lilypond will not be able to correctly calculate the length of
the syllables that include these strange characters. I have
sometimes used the trick to add underscores at the end of
syllables where Lilypond has underestimated the true length.
ly2dvi sets the input encoding to latin1 (ISO-8859-1) which
probably does not include all Lithuanian characters. If you use
the 8-bit input, you will therefore have to change this, either
by running ly2dvi -k <file>.ly and then edit the <file>_*.tex
file to use the correct argument to the inputenc package or
if you always want this, make the corresponding change at
line 247 in ly2dvi. If you use input TeX macros, this will
not be any problem.
/Mats
