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Re: quoted text in lyric
From: |
Mats Bengtsson |
Subject: |
Re: quoted text in lyric |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:02:26 +0100 |
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Have you tried
``this syntax''
yet? This is the right way to do it in LaTeX and works well
in LilyPond as well.
Stan Sanderson wrote:
On Mar 26, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> ...
What did you read that made you think that? Underscores in lyrics
are simply replaced by spaces, nothing else.
3.11.1 Entering lyrics (users' manual)
A word in Lyrics mode begins with: an alphabetic character, _, ?, !, :,
', the control ...
Since double quotes are not included, I started with an underscore,
which is recognized as the first (but non-printing) character of the
word. The second character, then, becomes the double quote, which
prints. However, the quote which is printed is an ending, rather than
beginning quote.
If you keep reading on the page, you'll find exactly an example of
that answers your original question:
He said: "\"Let" my peo ple "go\""
However, I'll add a comment in the manual about the prefer solution
He said: ``Let my peo ple go''
If my text editor "smartens" the quotes, lilypond (or LaTex) complains
about not knowing the ASCII character.
If you use and editor that knows LaTeX (such as Emacs with LaTeX mode),
it will smarten the quotes the right way.
/Mats