Re: quoted text in lyric

2004-03-26 Thread Stan Sanderson
Mats- Thank you for your response. I'm sorry I didn't mention version (2.1.32) and platform (OS 10.3). I also failed to correctly describe what I was using to obtain the quotation marks. As mentioned in the manual (at least as I understand it), one needs to use an underscore to start a quoted

Re: quoted text in lyric

2004-03-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Have you tried ``this syntax'' yet? This is the right way to do it in LaTeX and works well in LilyPond as well. Stan Sanderson wrote: On Mar 26, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > ... What did you read that made you think that? Underscores in lyrics are simply replaced by spaces, nothing els

Re: quoted text in lyric

2004-03-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Of course! /Mats Matthias Kilian wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:04:55AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: The LaTeX syntax for a double quote is ''quoted text``, at least Shouldn't it be ``quoted text''? Ciao, Kili ___ Lilypond-user mailing

Re: quoted text in lyric

2004-03-26 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Mar 26, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: Mats- Thank you for your response. I'm sorry I didn't mention version (2.1.32) and platform (OS 10.3). I also failed to correctly describe what I was using to obtain the quotation marks. As mentioned in the manual (at least

Re: quoted text in lyric

2004-03-26 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:04:55AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > The LaTeX syntax for a double quote is ''quoted text``, at least Shouldn't it be ``quoted text''? Ciao, Kili ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org

Re: quoted text in lyric

2004-03-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Stan Sanderson wrote: Mats- Thank you for your response. I'm sorry I didn't mention version (2.1.32) and platform (OS 10.3). I also failed to correctly describe what I was using to obtain the quotation marks. As mentioned in the manual (at least as I understand it), one needs to use an under

Re: quoted text in lyric

2004-03-26 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The LaTeX syntax for a double quote is ''quoted text``, at least to typeset the quotes according to English typesetting standards. So, one solution for you is to simply write ''the quot- ed text`` In order to convince LilyPond to pass a double quote in lyrics into the generated LaTeX file, you have

quoted text in lyric

2004-03-25 Thread Stan Sanderson
A phrase in a lyric is quoted. Lilypond interprets "text" to have two ending (smart) quotes rather than a) a beginning quote, text, an ending quote (which is preferred) or, b) plain straight quotes. I tried using backslashes \"text\" but got the same results. I didn't find an answer in the archi