Re: Problem with greek letter mu (μ)

[David Kastrup]

James Bailey <address@hidden> writes:

> On Oct 1, 2010, at 8:04 PM, alexandros wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> 
>> In the result of the following code, the greek letter mu (μ) appears in
>> another font, smaller and thiner than the other letters. I would be
>> grateful for any idea that could correct this.
>> 
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>> 
>> \version "2.12.2"
>> 
>> \relative c''{ c c c c }
>> \addlyrics{ μα- να- κα- λα- }
>> 
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> 
>> Alexandros
>
> Perhaps changing the font?
> \version "2.12.2"
>
> \relative c''{ c c c c }
> \addlyrics{ μα- να- κα- λα- }
> \addlyrics{ \override LyricText #'font-name = #"Times" μα- να- κα- λα- }
> \addlyrics{ \override LyricText #'font-name = #"Gill Sans" μα- να- κα- λα- }

Honestly?  Looks fishy in almost all fonts you show.  I suspect that the
math letter for "mikro" is picked here.

Looking at the source (as far as possible in mail), however, shows μ
(the Greek text letter, Unicode char 956) rather than µ (the Greek math
char, Unicode char 181).

Does Lilypond have internal character tables that could possibly mess
this up?

-- 
David Kastrup