Re: Problem with german umlauts and with mapping text to notes

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Klaus,

Am 13.01.19 um 13:42 schrieb Klaus Ethgen:
> - First there is the German umlauts. As you can see in the example, it
>    is correct encoded in UTF-8 but the umlauts are encoded as "??".
>    I did already try to use no bomb or even in latin1 encoding. But
>    nothing helped.

This is strange, because I can't reproduce the problem here. On my 
(Linux Mint) machine, the German umlauts are displayed fine without any 
change in your document.

> - The second problem is about aligning the text with the notes. As you
>    can see, it never get aligned correctly. I put it in the file in two
>    versions. The first is without any hint and the second is with all
>    hints. None of them has the proper aligning (Starting with "Roter"
>    over two notes, then "Mond" over one and the next note without text.
>    After that, "überm" over two notes and "Silbersee" over three and so
>    on.

Here I can help: First of all, only your second version can be expected 
to work at all (ro -- ter) because otherwise Lilypond has no way of 
guessing which part of a word is a "syllable".

What's missing is the link between the 'voice' (containing the actual 
notes) and the lyrics line. There are various ways:

- Immediately after the music, you can write \addlyrics:

 \new Staff { \relative {   a4 a | a2( | a4) h8 c }
\addlyrics { Ro -- ter Mond ü -- berm  }}

(This is not the most flexible solution; personally I only use it for 
very simple or quick'n'dirty scores.)

- Explicitly connecting the lyrics line to the melody:

\new Staff \new Voice = "arbitraryName" { \clef treble \global \relative {
      a4 a | a2( | a4) h8 c | h a g4 | a a a2( | a4) h8 c | h a g4 \break
      \repeat volta 2 { e'4 e | e2( | e4) d8 e | d4. c8 | d4 d8 c | d4 
d8 c | a4 a8 g | a2 }
}}
   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "arbitraryName" { Ro -- ter Mond ü -- berm 
Silbersee, Feuerglut wärmt den kalten Tee. Kiefernwald in der Nacht und 
noch ist der neue Tag nicht erwacht. }

Note that \lyricsto implicitly starts \lyricmode. (Also I'd recommend 
writing Mond __ if the note with the syllable "Mond" has a tie.)

Best
Lukas