Re: Inputting special symbols

[stk]

>>      -- this is a slow way to insert utf-8 characters, so it would be
>> suitable only if you need to insert just a *few* utf-8 characters here
>> and there

> One way around that is to give each symbol an ascii name like grave or
> whatever is meaningful to you. Then you just insert \your-name-here
> when you want that symbol.

The problem I've had with that is that when I define

     eaigu = "<the utf-8 double byte for é>"

and then (later) say

     \markup "sym" \eaigu "trique"

what I get in the PDF file is

     sym é trique

because Lilypond inserts a space between any two markup components.

-- Tom