Re: Scandinavian letters in lyrics and text markup

[Mats Bengtsson]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > The problem is the syntax of latexpackages. We need a syntax where we
> > can add individual options to each package. If you try to use the
> > package fontenc and add the option 'T1' using latexoptions, the option
> > will be included as an option to \documentclass and LaTeX will give
> > errors since the option is unknown to all packages but fontenc.
> > I don't have any good suggestion for the syntax. Possibly, we could do
> > something like
> > latexpackages = "[T1]fontenc, [swedish]babel"
>
>
> Yes, all kinds of stuff is possible.  Would it not be better to just use
>
>    latexpackages = "fontenc, babel"
>
> and introduce:
>
>    latexcommands = "\\fontencoding{T1}\\language{swedish}"

Sure, but then we could just as well have
latexcommands = "\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\\usepackage[swedish]{babel}"
and skip latexpackages.

I'm sure there are packages where not every package option can be
easily set by a separate command, but it's not necessary to
cope with those for the moment.

> etc?  We're just looking for something simple, I think, that does not
> require editing the lilypond.py output.  What about inputencoding?
> lilypond.py now sets latin1, that seems silly?

No, otherwise you cannot use åäöüßø in the .ly file.

    /Mats