Re: special characters in markup

[Paul Scott]

Valentin Villenave wrote:
> 2008/1/11, Paul Scott <address@hidden>:
>
>   
> > That's a good answer which I can use
> >     
>
> This is not really needed anymore, as LilyPond can support all UTF-8
> characters natively.
>
>   
> > I was actually thinking about normal characters like '"' which have
> > another syntactical meaning in Lily.
> >     
>
> Actually, the double quote is the only character you need to 'escape',
> by preceding it with a backslash:
>
> \markup "This 'is' #a \"quoted sentence\" \with $pecial {chars}"
>
> As you can see, the #, { or \ characters are otherwise looking good.
>   
This requires that the text be enclosed in quotes (Thanks to Geoff 
Horton). 

This works:  \markup{ "some \"quoted text\"" }
This doesn't:  \markup{ some \"quoted text\" }

Paul