Re: Snippet 888 string, was Re: Lyric centre-on-word / ignore-punctuation bug

[David Kastrup]

David Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat 24 Feb 2018 at 11:06:20 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote:
>> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > 2018-02-24 3:45 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> When a lyric syllable begins with a typographer’s single quote
>> >> (e.g., ’cause, ’ll, etc.), the "ignore-punctuation" hack doesn't
>> >> work. Any hints on how to fix this would be appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Kieren.
>> >>
>> >> %%%  SNIPPET BEGINS
>> >> \version "2.19"
>> >>
>> >
>> > Only characters from `space-set' are respected by `center-on-word'.
>> > Extend the given string with "’"
>> >
>> >> #(define space-set
>> >>   (list->char-set
>> >>     (string->list "—.?-;,:“†‘’–— */()[]{}|<>!`~&…")))
>> >
>> > #(define space-set
>> >   (list->char-set
>> >     (string->list "’—.?-;,:“†‘’–— */()[]{}|<>!`~&…")))
>> >
>> > works for me.
>> 
>> Doesn't really look like dealing sensibly with utf-8.
>
> AFAICT the string in the original snippet is
>
> —.?-;,:“”‘’–— */()[]{}|<>!`~&…

I was talking about the code, not the string (which is garbled, sure).

> What I haven't figured out is why there are two long dashes;

en-dash and em-dash are different code points.

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David Kastrup