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Re: quotation marks (double-quotes) in lyrics


From: Jeff Ousley
Subject: Re: quotation marks (double-quotes) in lyrics
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:51:59 -0800 (PST)

All,

Thanks for the suggestions. In my lyrics I tried:

  ``God8 is8 king''

This did not produce any quotes at all. Any other
ideas?

thanks!
-jeff

--- Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 20:03:35 -0800 (PST)
> Jeff Ousley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > How do I include quotation marks in lyrics? I'm
> > putting a backslash in front of them, but this
> seems
> > to put two little dots above the next letter,
> instead
> > of double-quotes before. For example:
> > 
> > \"God is King\"
> > 
> > Is this not right?
> 
> In LaTeX, you're encouraged to use `` and '' instead
> of ".  I think that
> \" engaged the accent mechanisms -- for example,
> Christmas might be written
> N\"oel.
> 
> Have a look at a LaTeX guide -- there are tons
> around on the web -- to find out
> how to use double quotes (").  Or you could just use
> two single quotes (`` foo '').
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham


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