At least if you have a reasonably new version of gedit, it is possible to set the character encoding it uses when saving files. This involves two steps: - Set the environment variable LANG to en_US or en_UK or de_DE or fr_FR or whatever language code you prefer. This specifies the "locale" of your system and will change the language used in your programs. Also, as long as you specify a western European language, it will also specify that files should be saved with Latin1 encoding (also called ISO-8859-1). - Start gedit, open Edit->Preferences, click on Save and mark "Use current locale's encoding" (note, separate settings for new and existing files).
Now, you can insert the characters directly, �, �, �, �, �, in your .ly file, both in lyrics and in titles and your editor will save them using an encoding that LilyPond (or at least LaTeX) will understand.
I can't understand your problem with the "piece" header field. What error message do you get? (You may have to use lilypond --verbose to see it).
/Mats
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Hi!
I (still) use lilypond 2.2.0 on Linux Kernel 2.4. with gedit.
1. I found here help for the german � (I get it with \\\ss (without") in Lyrics. But the � is disregarded for the spacing, so it comes to collisions and the syllabe is not centered.
2. Also are working � � � with \"u (or o or a) and \c{c} (cedilla)
3. In the Header, it is not so easy: � comes with \\\"{u} (also � and �), and c-cedilla with \c{c},
4. but all that i tried (also try and error) never gave a �. (I tried: \\\ss \\\{ss} \\\"{s} \\\{"s} \\\s \\\s{s} \ss \{ss} \"{s} \{"s} \s \s{s} (Of course, I cant put the words in "", because it has here another signification.)
5. Also the \header { piece = "Adagio" } doesnt work. Its ever make the compilation collapses, except when it is empty. \header { piece = "" }
I would be pleased about some ideas! Thanks already from
Fran\c{c}ois
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