Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch writes: Philip Thomas wrote: Dear fellow-users, I'm working on a vocal piece in which some lyrics are in parentheses, but the opening parentheses don't appear in the output PDF file. The closing parentheses are fine. By way of example, here's a couple

Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-15 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 2:04 PM Subject: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear Dear fellow-users, I'm working on a vocal piece in which some lyrics are in parentheses, but the opening

RE: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-15 Thread Philip Thomas
Philip Thomas wrote: Dear fellow-users, I'm working on a vocal piece in which some lyrics are in parentheses, but the opening parentheses don't appear in the output PDF file. The closing parentheses are fine. By way of example, here's a couple of bars from the piece: Phil Holmes wrote:

Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-11 Thread Philip Thomas
Dear fellow-users, I'm working on a vocal piece in which some lyrics are in parentheses, but the opening parentheses don't appear in the output PDF file. The closing parentheses are fine. By way of example, here's a couple of bars from the piece: \version 2.14.2 \relative c'

Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 2:04 PM Subject: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear Dear fellow-users, I'm working on a vocal piece in which some lyrics are in parentheses, but the opening

RE: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-11 Thread Philip Thomas
-Original Message- From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] Sent: Monday 11 June 2012 15:13 To: Philip Thomas; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear - Original Message - From: Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch To: lilypond-user

Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch To: 'Phil Holmes' m...@philholmes.net; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 2:33 PM Subject: RE: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear -Original Message- From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m

Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-11 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello Philip, you might use markup-lists. In markups, the parens are typeset: --snip-- \version 2.15.40 % should run in 2.14 % define a music-function, to convert a markup-list to a list of LyricEvents lyricmarkup = #(define-music-function (parser location mup)(markup-list?) (make-music

Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-11 Thread -Eluze
Philip Thomas-2 wrote: Dear fellow-users, I'm working on a vocal piece in which some lyrics are in parentheses, but the opening parentheses don't appear in the output PDF file. The closing parentheses are fine. By way of example, here's a couple of bars from the piece: you can use

RE: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

2012-06-11 Thread Philip Thomas
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote (11 Jun 2012 14:46:31): It was mentioned in earlier emails (as in lots of years ago) as a possible bug, since you can't have slurs in lyrics. -- Aha. Not a solution, but I now have a better feel for the problem. -- I think I'll send a