Re: German text characters

[Graham Percival]

On 21-May-06, at 11:20 PM, Michael Phillips wrote:

> How can I get umlaut a, e and o (and double-s) into the German text of 
> a Bach
> cantata? I believe there is a way by using \markup and \char #n, but 
> haven't
> discoved how.

Insert the characters directly into the text.  In the 2.8.2 manual, see 
sections 8.1 and 10.1.4.

Cheers,
- Graham