Joerg, All of those characters are in Latin 1. Latin 1 is ASCII plus the western European characters. It has single-byte characters 1-255. UTF-8 contains those characters too, but in UTF-8 those are 2-byte characters. There is no need to use UTF-8 to get them.
It would seem to me that making LilyPond handle UTF-8 (ie: byte-stream Unicode) for the left-to-right cases would be fairly straightforward. It would rely primarily on existence of fonts and of support in TeX. OTOH, doing bidi or even plain right-to-left would be much harder because it would challenge more of the assumptions in the layout engine. Dick On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 11:17, Joerg Anders wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Aaron wrote: > > > >is an alternative way. Instead of special LilyPond configuration I could also > > >use Unicode character coding and prepend the special directives from your page: > > > > > I have no idea boy I wish this were the case, but if it takes Unicode > > why would the scheme stuff be needed? I may be wrong it may need bidi > > support or calling freebidi. > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > > As Aaron already as said, part of the problem with Hebrew is that > > it's written right to left instead of left to right, that's why he > > has to use elatex instead of latex. > > > > When it comes to unicode, I'm afraid it would require lots of work > > to make LilyPond support unicode. > > I have a very simple question. At http://www.geocities.com/aamehl/ > I see (pehaps wrong at my isolatin browser): > > \relative d' {} > } > \context Lyrics \apply #(text-augment "\\R{" "}") \lyrics { > > ������ ��� ���� ��� > What is it ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ? It is not UTF-8. In my opinion it is Unicode.(?) > Or at least these are ASCII numbers with 7th bit == 1. > > And still a simple question to Aaron: Do you see Hebrew letters on > NoteEdit board? Actually it should work, because I make no assumptions > about the character set. > > And if so: If you export to LilyPond and you add the > directives from http://www.geocities.com/aamehl, does > this result in Hebrew LilyPond output? -- Dick Schoeller mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://schoeller.ne.client2.attbi.com/ 781.449.5476 _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
