Re: French accents

[James E. Bailey]

On 02.08.2009, at 15:06, Graham Norton wrote:

Dear All,

The Unicodes are available from TeXShop > Edit > Special Characters (in MaC OS).

 Just select a character and let the mouse hover over it. (A total of 2820 glyphs can be obtained this way.)

Here is a table of special French characters obtained in this way:

character Unicode

é  00E9

è 00E8

ê 00EA

î 00EE

ç 00E7

à 00E0

ô 00F4

For instance,

\markup{ \concat{ B  \char ##x00E9 caud } }

in lyrics gives Bécaud  in LilyPond output (from TeXShop input), as per the Notation Reference 3.3.3.

Incidentally, TeXShop produces this output even without changing TeXShop > Preferences > Encoding to UTF-8.

Graham

PS I think it would be useful if the doc in Notation Reference 3.3.3 said something about how to obtain the unicodes (for users who are not using a UTF-8 supported edito)r.

If you're on a macintosh, this is an extremely long way to do this. The faster way is to hold down option, the modifier, and then the character. For example, é is option-e-e and è is option-`-e. These can all be seen in the keyboard viewer, which can be accessed from System Preferences in the Input Menu of the International preferences.

Also, if you're on a macintosh, your editor supports UTF-8.

James E. Bailey