Following up on this question from thursday, how do I insert the curly quotes? I copied them from your email but would like to know how to do them myself!
Thank you, Jean! The first option with the backslashes worked perfectly.
Le 09/09/2021 à 23:46, Kira Garvie a écrit :
> Hello all,
> I am typing the lyrics to a hymn, and it has the line: The cry “To
> arms!” is heard afar and near. How do I do those quotations without
> Frescobaldi thinking it’s a string of code? Also I am the newbie-est
> of newbies with coding and this program here so please be gentle and
> very specific! Thank you!!
> Best,
> Kira
Hi,
I assume your problem is about something like this:
\version "2.22.1"
{ c'1 c' }
\addlyrics { "To arms" }
where you want the quotes to appear as part of the
words "To" and "arms". In the example shown above,
they group the two words together, making them a
single syllable (see [1]).
To add these quote marks,
- enclose each word in quotes, to enable a parsing mode
that has string-specific features,
- add a backslash before the quotes you want to include
literally, to 'escape' them so that they will be
treated as part of the string without ending the string
as they would normally do.
This technique is explained at [2]. The code becomes:
{ c'1 c' }
\addlyrics { "\"To" "arms\"" }
That being said, an attractive option would be to use curly
quotes. These characters are separate from straight quotes,
so they don't have synctactic meaning to LilyPond. Also, they
render much nicer in the output.
{ c'1 c' }
\addlyrics { “To arms” }
Cheers, and -- welcome on this list!
Jean
[1]:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#multiple-syllables-to-one-note
[2]:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#entering-lyrics