Re: quotation marks (double-quotes) in lyrics

[Jeff Ousley]

My Bad! Sorry. Both methods below did work. <blush> I
chose to go with:

  "``God"8 is8 "king'';"4

because it looked nicer. I won't say what I was doing
wrong...

Thanks!
-jeff

--- Jeff Ousley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Arggg! I tried:
> 
>   "``God"8 is8 "king'';"4
> 
> as well as:
> 
>   "\"God"8 is8 "king\";"4
> 
> neither of them print any quote marks. I end up
> with:
> 
>   God is king;
> 
> instead of this:
> 
>   "God is king;"
> 
> I'm using version 1.6.8 out of cygwin. Am I not
> doing
> this right? Thanks for all the help.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> --- Laura Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Ousley <address@hidden>
> > writes:
> > 
> >     Jeff> This did not produce any quotes at all.
> > Any other
> >     Jeff> ideas?
> > 
> > You have to enclose the "word" in double quotes,
> and
> > then escape the
> > quote with a backslash:
> > 
> >         "\"God" is "King\""
> > 
> > Don't ask me why.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Laura (mailto:address@hidden ,
> > http://www.laymusic.org/ )
> > (617) 661-8097      fax: (801) 365-6574 
> > 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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