On Oct 8, 2021, at 10:33 PM, Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> On 2021-10-08 8:24 pm, David F. wrote:
>> macOS 10.14.6, Lilypond 2.22.1
>> The syntax for adding quotes to lyrics is a little cluttered, so I
>> thought I’d whip up a couple of little helper functions to tidy things
>> up. Two hours later I’m reaching out to the mailing list for help.
>> The example below is failing in two ways. First, I can’t figure out
>> how to actually interpolate the syllable that is the input to my
>> functions into the output. Second, the hyphen between the first two
>> syllables is lost.
>
> Your functions could accept the text as markup. Also, you should strongly
> consider using typographer's quotes, which can be input directly as UTF-8 or
> using character shorthand neither of which requires messing about with
> escaping:
>
> %%%%
> \paper { #(include-special-characters) }
> \relative { \time 3/4 e'4 e4. e8 d4 e d c2. }
> \addlyrics { &elqq;In -- com -- pa -- ra -- ble,&erqq; said she }
>
> openQuote = #(define-scheme-function (text) (markup?) #{ \markup \concat { “
> #text } #})
> closeQuote = #(define-scheme-function (text) (markup?) #{ \markup \concat {
> #text ” } #})
> \relative { \time 3/4 e'4 e4. e8 d4 e d c2. }
> \addlyrics { \openQuote In -- com -- pa -- ra -- \closeQuote ble, said she }
> %%%%
Thanks Aaron, that’s great. Yes, using typographer’s quotes was one of my
motivations for making the helper functions in the first place.
I did notice that the \markup defeats lyric ties. It’s not a big deal—that
combo only occurs once in the songs I have. But now I’m curious. What do
lyric syllables get turned into? A LyricEvent? Is it possible to build and
return a LyricEvent from a function?
%%%%
openQuote = #(define-scheme-function (text) (markup?) #{ \markup \concat { “
#text } #})
closeQuote = #(define-scheme-function (text) (markup?) #{ \markup \concat {
#text ” } #})
\relative { \time 3/4 e'4 e4. e8 d4 e d c2. }
\addlyrics { \openQuote O~In -- com -- pa -- ra -- \closeQuote ble, said she }
%%%%
David F.
