Now I feel dumb for not thinking of changing the font! This looks pretty
nice to me.
Thank you.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:27 PM Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >> I am trying to create some sort of tablature for Kalimba, treating
> >> it like a one-string instrument with fret-labels. I want to use
> >> letters like c, ċ, ċ̇ (or c𐽉), etc.  I figured there are Unicode
> >> characters to do exactly that, "combining dot above" and "combining
> >> two dots above", etc.  However, LilyPond does not seem to be able to
> >> render "combining two dots above", and two "combining dot above"
> >> characters (rendered correctly by my browser, as well as Emacs)
> >> result in the two dots to be rendered almost on top of each other in
> >> LilyPond.  I have attached a rather minimal example.
> >
> > This is a pure font issue, not related to LilyPond at all or the used
> > rendering library (Pango).  Your example works just fine with the
> > fonts 'Gentium Plus' or 'Charis SIL', for example.  I've slightly
> > modified your snippet to show a possible solution.
>
> Attached is an image that shows your example Charis SIL.
>
>
>     Werner
>

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