Re: Microtonal Helmholtz-Ellis notation in Lilypond: fine-tuning

[Hans Aberg]

On 26 Sep 2009, at 23:58, Torsten Anders wrote:

> > Line 169 has spurious character <A7> at the end. Looks like:
> > %% show the markup extend as box (for debugging)ß
>
> Oops. Actually, I read this char as §, but it is certainly not  
> necessary there. Anyway, it is a comment. Do you have any problems  
> running Lilypond with this file?

I did not try. As it is in a comment, it should not matter, unless  
lilypond checks for UTF-8 consistency, in which case the file of  
course is illegal.

> > > Seemingly, Aquamacs saves default files into Mac OS Roman, but there
> > > shouldn't be any character in the file for which that actually
> > > matters. Of course, line endings are in UNIX convention instead of
> > > windows.
> >
> > I use Xcode when ensuring pure text files in UTF-8 without metadata.
>
> I see. I would not have expected Emacs/Aquamacs having any problems  
> saving plain text files...

I use Fink emacs, which has an X11 GUI - MacPorts emacs I think did  
not have that. For some reason it did not work well with UTF-8. But it  
is better with UNIX permissions. So when root, I use emacs, which is  
also my environment variable EDITOR, and otherwise Xcode. I make new  
files in Terminal using 'touch', or 'cp' on an old. Then 'open' is  
useful (try 'open .' if you haven't done that).

  Hans