Re: getting errors using lyrics with special characters in lilypond (fwd)

[David Boersma]

Hello,

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> % THIS LINE GIVES AN ERROR MESSAGE:
> 
>           A tél, a nyár, az \H{o}sz, a fes- l\H{o} ta- vasz,


I suspect that when a word in the lyrics text starts with a backslash then
lilypond will try to expand it as if were a previously defined lily macro.
When I enclose the word in double quotes, like:

            A tél, a nyár, az "\H{o}sz," a fes- l\H{o} ta- vasz,

then it compiles for me and to me the result looks like a beautiful
Hungarian song. The \H{o} translates on my box into an o with a tilted
'Umlaut' as the Germans would call it. 

David Boersma
NIKHEF, Amsterdam