> QUIBBLE: Interesting use (mis-matched) of left and right quotes of > quoted strings in Lilypond output > > Processing `Were_You_There.ly'... [...]
As others mentioned already, this is deliberate. It was the standard GNU quoting style many years ago, and it looked OK then with most fonts, both on the terminal and in print. Meanwhile, this has changed. The GNU coding standard https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Quote-Characters.html#Quote-Characters now recommends 'foo' (and "foo") for quoting in the C locale. Changing this in LilyPond everywhere is a rather simple but major undertaking, and until now nobody volunteered to do so. It also affects translations, because changing the quoting style necessitates proper synchronization in the corresponding `.po` files so that the burden of suddenly updating a large bunch of messages does not become a job of the translators. Note that the LilyPond's documentation itself is not affected. We rather use `@q{...}` and `@qq{...}` for quotation. Note also that you will find more and more Markdown quotation style in comments and non-Texinfo documentation, which uses 'foo' and "foo" for normal quoting, and `foo` to indicate verbatim stuff. If you are interested on more background information, I suggest to read https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html Werner
