Re: acute' accent!

[Minh A. Hoang]

Hi David,
Thank you very much for your reply. Actually, I also guessed that it
was LaTeX problem and I tried the same text in a standard tex document.
Everything works fine in this case. Coming back to .ly file, we get the
same problem even with any character rather than "i", e.g.
title = "Du kich s\'{o}ng Thao " ...
I am sorry for bothering you with this sort of thing. It's just because
in my mother tongue language, without coherent accent, a word can be
misunderstood in a disastrous manner :)
Best,

-Minh
Informatics Institute
de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

--- David Boersma <address@hidden> wrote:
> > \header {
> >   filename = "dukichsongthao.ly"
> >   title = "Du k\'{i}ch s\^{o}ng Thao "
> > }
> 
> I guess your problem is that the i still has a dot, which interferes with
> the acute. You get a dotless i by backslashing it:
> 
>    title = "Du k\'{\i}ch s\^{o}ng Thao "
> 
> How could you have known it? Well, the text is processed by LaTeX, so
> questions and problems of this kind (text within double quotes, typically)
> can be answered/solved by peeking in a LaTeX book. Leslie Lamport's book
> is the standard manual for LaTeX (I think the full book title is "LaTeX, a
> document preparation system").
> [Since you work in the institute of informatics in Amsterdam I am sure you
> can borrow it from someone, otherwise hop by your neighbours (NIKHEF,
> physics institute, I worked there until recently:-) where latex is used
> almost exclusively for typesetting articles, reports and theses...]
> 
> Related problems you might get when using signs like #, %, &, \ (etc) in
> the textstrings. Put a backslash in front of them, otherwise you'll get
> very cryptic errors in your ly2dvi output since these signs have a special
> meaning in LaTeX (which is bypassed by a backslash-prefix).
> 
> David Boersma
> DESY, Hamburg
> 


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