Re: Lyrics and Punctuations Alignment Issue?

[David Nalesnik]

Hi Ming,

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:04 PM, MING TSANG <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi David:

Thank you for the align grob.

The chinese character is double byte.  Please refer to lyric d & f : correspondent Chinese character to d is ok but the Chinese character at f is off a bit.  Is it possible to make f the same as d?  The difference at d the '," is single byte while at f the "o" is double byte.

Thank you for your help.

Ming.

I've worked with multiple byte characters before (with difficulty), and I think I could help.  The way I dealt with them was to create a list of characters to recognize.  (For reference: http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg68583/example_%284%29.ly)  The method isn't pretty**

In order for me to help, though, I'll need to see the file that created your image.  What are the UTF-8 encodings of the special punctuation characters?

**At one point, I was referred to the functions documented at http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/docs/glib/html/Unicode-Manipulation.html#Unicode-Manipulation, which look like they would ease working with such characters.  However, I was never able to figure out how to get these functions available to LilyPond.  Does anyone reading this know how it would be done?

Thanks,

David