On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > What you have found in the source code files are some left-overs > from version 2.4 and earlier, where LilyPond only knew about Latin1. > If you browse through the mailing list archives, you can also find > out why this was not a satisfactory solution if you want to promote > the program outside western Europe.
(1) That's certainly one huge mass of "left-overs". For a language that allows coloured labelled noteheads, Gregorian notation, tenor clef, and Lord knows what else, it is amazing that the developers would choose to *remove* an existing capability. (2) Deleting a capability is not "promotion". Making unicode an available *option* would be promotion, but deleting the existing ability to use Latin-1 is not going to help you recruit users amongst the half billion people in Western Europe and North America whose other software all understands Latin-1. (As a side remark, when I communicate with people in Romania or other Eastern European locations, I have to use Latin-2; software [mainly dictionaries] downloadable from those locations uses Latin-2, *not* unicode. Unicode may or may not become predominant someday, but it certainly is not now.) -- Tom ------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The file ...\usr\share\lilypond\2.6.0\ly\paper-defaults.ly > > sanctions Latin1 in the statement > > inputencoding = #"latin1" > > and later under > > #(define text-font defaults... ...) > > > > The file ...\usr\share\lilypond\2.6.0\scm\encoding.scm, > > in the long definition > > (define-public latin1-coding-vector... ...), > > laboriously lists all 256 Latin1 characters, with .notdef for the > > control characters and with a full list of the Western European > > accented characters (agrave, aacute, acircumflex, etc.). > > > > There is considerable coding to enable Latin1 in the .ly and .scm files in > > the LilyPond distribution; how can this coding be made to actually > > function? > > > > Thank you for your help. > > > > -- Tom _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
