Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Any hints possible on how to achieve quotation marks in lyrics? Preferrably the language specific (German) versions. ordinary quotation marks should be preceded with backslashes and included inside external quotation marks: {

Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Any hints possible on how to achieve quotation marks in lyrics? Preferrably the language specific (German) versions. ordinary quotation marks should be preceded with

Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
This is almost, what I just was about to write ... just another hint: you can also enter any character in a markup with the \char command. The codes are 8222 and 8220. If you want to circumvent \markup \concat { \char #8222 Ich }, you might use a music-function, to wrap syllables in quotes. I

Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

2012-04-26 Thread Urs Liska
Thanks to all. Janek's (simplest) solution just did it. When I noticed that hitting doesn't work because it's a special char, I didn't think of the (obvious) fact that the other quotation marks aren't special but ordinary Unicode characters ... So copy and paste worked smoothly :-[ Best Urs