On Thu 23 Feb 2017 at 11:06:16 (-0500), Tim Slattery wrote: > Joseph Austin <drtechda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I don't fully understand the point or effect of the "extra" quotes in the > >example. > >Why is the f example incorrect? > > Looks like a quotation mark must be within a quoted string (or it > means something else). But once you start a quoted string, another > quote will end it. The back slash "escapes" the following character, > telling LP that it's not a control character, but an actual quote.
Yes, the source of the confusion is the backslash. It might be clearer if the documentation quoted by the OP finished thus: … any 8-bit character with an ASCII code over 127, or a two-character combination of a backslash followed by one of `, ', ", or ^. Note that backslash itself is not in this list, so strings beginning with those combinations must be quoted. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
