Following up on this question from thursday, how do I insert the curly quotes? I copied them from your email but would like to know how to do them myself!
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:09 PM Kira Garvie <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Jean! The first option with the backslashes worked perfectly. > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:02 PM Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> 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 >> >
