Re: Primo symbol in LilyPond

[David Kastrup]

Marc Hohl <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 24.11.2013 09:56, schrieb 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.
>
> Ok. This is yet another utf trickery I wasn't aware of ;-)

I think it's actually in the Latin-1 range already.  Some people must
have considered it important.

On my keyboard, I get them with Compose ^ _ o and Compose ^ _ a which
took me an inordinate amount of time to figure out.

-- 
David Kastrup