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

[Kovacs Zoltan]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, David Boersma wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > 
> > % 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. 

Thank you, David, it worked well. In fact, this is not a Hungarian melody,
this is an English song translated into Hungarian. By the way, has anybody
translated any instructions, info pages, manual or other documentation
into Hungarian about Lilypond?

Regards,
Zoltan

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