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### 8.1 Text

This section explains how to include text (with various formatting) in your scores.

To write non-ascii text (such as characters from other languages), simply insert the characters directly into the lilypond file. The file must be saved as UTF-8. For more information, see Text encoding.

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

Other languages: English.
Using automatic language selection.