Re: Font questions

[Alexander Kobel]

Father Gordon Gilbert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Perhaps someone can help me here.  I'm trying to set the Huron Carol 
> (old hymn written by St Jean de Brebeuf in the 1640s).  [...]  Also, in the vers
> in the original Wendat language, the common way to depict one certain 
> sound is with an "8", but Lily won't let me put that in lyrics.

Hi.

For the letter you want, I guess it's in fact the "LATIN LETTER OU", 
with Unicode code point U+0222 or U+0223 (see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ou_%28letter%29).
As stated there, you could use "8" or \markup \italic "8" instead. Note 
that you have to write "8" instead of just 8 in the lyrics, since it is 
parsed as a duration of a (missing) syllable without the quotes - thus 
the error.


Cheers,
Alexander

{ c'' c'' c'' c'' }
\addlyrics { Ȣ ȣ "8" \markup \italic "8" }