Thomas Morley <[email protected]> writes: > 2012/11/18 Wim van Dommelen <[email protected]>: >> >> My question: Is this use of different (utf8) characters supported "by >> accident", or on purpose? I would welcome this change but not when it >> can be broken in the future. And if "yes" can someone update the >> documentation to provide some guideline as what to do and what not to >> do.... With some examples? > > I've not the knowledge to answer your questions definitely. David > Kastrup could say much more about it. (And there are several > discussions about that topic here on the list and on devel.)
At the current point of time, the rule is that "alphabetic" is a-z, A-Z, and _any_ non-ASCII character. This is a bit excessive, but short of a reliable "is a letter" test, this was easiest to implement. Personally, I stick to ASCII letters. There is probably a bit of code around that relies on some non-ASCII characters, so it is not really clear that a discussion of what to do when one gets a more reliable criterion for "letter" (possibly with Guilev2) will lead to a particular result. There is not likely going to be a technical necessity for changing the current behavior. However, diverging from common usage will possibly sometimes confuse convert-ly and other programs different from LilyPond itself. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
