Re: Dashes missing from titles

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> on 2004-09-16 at 00:59 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > That's an unfortunate side-effect of the EC fonts of TeX (they don't
> > contain normal hyphens/minuses). You can get around it by adding the
> > Latin1 hyphen, which is a hi-bit ascii char.
> 
> I tried to understand what EC fonts mean by reading a page[1] from a TeX
> FAQ, but I'm too unexperienced in the TeX world to fully grasp it.
> 
> Anyway, shouldn't this still be considered a bug, regardless of where
> exactly the reason lies? A dash is a dash is a dash, and it should be in
> LilyPond, too, IMHO.

we are not going to fix this before the 3.0 release. If you want to
have all kinds of dashes, you should use the TeX backend, and write a
LateX wrapper around the lilypond .tex output.


> 
> [1] http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~mimi/tex/doc/html/faq/FAQ-ECfonts.html
> 

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