Janek Warchoł <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Urs Liska <[email protected]> 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: > > { b } > \addlyrics { > "\"quote\"" > } > > to have other quotation marks, simply take advantage of Unicode > encoding - unicode recognizes several different types of quotation > marks and treats them as different characters. The only problem is to > get them, since pressing " key on the keyboard gives the " character, > not one of the other quotations. I usually work around this by > pasting from a word processor or, for example, wikipedia > (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anf%C3%BChrungszeichen): > > { b } > \addlyrics { > „modal“ > } > > (i don't know if the e-mail won't distort the encoding, but when i use > the code which i pasted above i get german quotation marks in Lily > output)
If you are working on a typical X terminal, you might use Multi-key (I configured it to be Shift-AltGr) followed by ", to get „ and by "> to get ” and by "< to get “. In the same vein, you can use ', for ‚ and '< for ‘ and '> for ’. And, of course >> for » and << for «. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
