Thank you, Jean! The first option with the backslashes worked perfectly.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:02 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
> 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
>
