Re: printing actual "~" character in lyrics?

[David Kastrup]

Mark Polesky <address@hidden> writes:

> I know it's an odd request, but what if I actually want 
> the ~ character to print in lyrics?  None of these work:
>
> "~"
> '~'
> \~
> #"~"
> ##\~
> #(string #\~)

Well, the string is converted.  Try

\markup { "~" }

Note that \markup "~" again is identical to "~", but \markup { ... } is
a form of \markup <markup-list> and is converted to \markup \line
<markup-list>.  That is sufficiently complex to stop the lyric
typesetter from looking into it.

Less than fabulous, yes.

-- 
David Kastrup