On 06/06/14 21:23, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: > I'm trying to introduce an asterisk ("*") into a lyrics line in the > following piece to indicate where the congregation should join in. > However, I'm getting an error "unexpected *" when I try it. Take the > asterisk out and everything works fine. > > \version "2.18.2" > \language "english" > << > \new Staff \with { > \remove "Time_signature_engraver" > } > \relative c' { > \key f \major > \set Score.timing = ##f > \omit Stem > e4 f( g ) g g-- \bar "|" g g (bflat) g g f f--( g--) \bar "|" f g > bflat bflat( c ) bflat c d-- \bar "|" c bflat a g--( a bflat g ) g-- > \bar "||" > } > \addlyrics { > The ri -- sen Lord *has robed him -- self with might; let us re -- > joice and be glad and give him glo -- ry. > } > >> > > The only place in the documentation where I can find mention of the > asterisk is: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/chants-psalms-and-hymns.it.html > > > However, this just uses the asterisk as a regular character and has it > in a markup, rather than a lyrics line, as so doesn't seem to be > applicable. > > Any suggestions on what I need to be doing differently? > > Also, ideally I'd like the asterisk to be centered between "Lord" and > "has" rather than attached to "has". Is there a way to make that happen? Hello,
See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/special-characters#ascii-aliases and then http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/list-of-special-characters This might help. James _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user