Re: Opening parenthesis in lyrics has to be in quotes

[Colin Hall]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:35:48PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> > news:address@hidden
> >> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >>> But not a closing one.  Given that it's impossible that it could be a
> >>> slur, I think it's a bug that it needs to be enclosed in quotes with
> >>> its word, like this: "(word".
> >>
> >> I don't think that closing quotes are treated differently, you just are
> >> less likely to write )word and word( than the other way round.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> David Kastrup
> >
> > I've just checked and you're correct.  It's either ( or ) that
> > prefixes a syllable.  Postfixed versions of either are OK.  Even more
> > reason that this is a bug, IMHO.
> 
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2598>
> 
> Reported by project member address@hidden, Today (1 minute ago)

Thanks for taking care of that, David.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall