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

[Malte Meyn]

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.

Cannot reproduce. Which LilyPond version are you using? And which 
operating system?

> - 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.
Using only \new Lyrics \lyricmode … every syllable gets the same 
duration; in your case that’s a half note because your last note before 
the lyrics is an “a2”. You can either assign the correct durations yourself

        \new Lyrics \lyricmode { Ro4 -- ter Mond2. ü8 -- berm Sil -- ber see4 … 
}

or use \lyricsto or \addlyrics:

        \addlyrics { Ro -- ter Mond ü -- berm Sil -- ber -- see … }

Have a look at the Notation Reference about lyrics for how to use these 
functions exactly.