Re: 3 problems with LilyPond 2.12.3.1

[Tim McNamara]

On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:

> > > 2.  I'm trying to engrave a song which uses numerals as its sole  
> > > lyrics.
>
> > Enclose them in quotes.
>
> That works, thanks - albeit it's a bit of a pain, since the music I  
> have uses individual number as words in the lyric, so the complete  
> lyric set for one section is 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2  
> 3 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 - so each numeral needs placing in quotes!   
> (Luckily I'm writing a prog that converts from Noteworthy to  
> LilyPond so I've updated it to check for numerals with spaces  
> before and after and escape them with quotes, but it's a bit hack-y).

Howe about using the "replace all" command in your text editor to  
replace 2 with "2" etc.?  You might need to use regexps to avoid  
having things like a"2":m7 end up in your .ly file.