Re: Primo symbol in LilyPond

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Cf <URL:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/1%C2%BA>

-- 
David Kastrup