Re: Need help with this simple lyric

[Gilles THIBAULT]

> Mats, I think I figured it out, sort off.  The Maltese cross character
> (U+2720) is part of the dingbats unicode code block.  On a windows XP
> machine this character is part of the Wingdings font family.  The 
> Wingdings
> fonts do not have unicode definitions.  So Lilypond gets confused and 
> Jedit
> gets confused.  Thanks for your help.

in openoffice , the Wingdings code for this character is shown as F0AA = 
61528 (decimal)

To obtain this character, you have to type in JEdit
   Alt + 61528
It give you a "X" symbol but lilypond convert it in the right font

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\version "2.10.25"

\score {
c'1^\markup { \override #'(font-name . "Wingdings") {X}}
}

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Gilles