Re: Primo symbol in LilyPond

[David Kastrup]

Marc Hohl <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 24.11.2013 09:35, schrieb David Kastrup:
> [...]
>> What's wrong with
>>
>> primo = "1º"
>> prima = "1ª"
>>
>> Shouldn't that do the trick without further trickery?
>
> Well, the example png shows the "°" placed above the dot of "1.".

You are using the wrong character here.  What you use is

  name: DEGREE SIGN
  general-category: So (Symbol, Other)
  decomposition: (176) ('°')

whereas the correct character is

  name: MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR
  general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
  decomposition: (super 111) (super 'o')

> If the dot can be omitted, "1°" is probably just fine.

My mastery of Spanish (and/or Portuguese?) is non-existing, but it would
seem like the name and existence of that glyph makes it likely that its
presence alone should be indicative of an ordinal number.

-- 
David Kastrup