Re: emacs, umlauts, tabbing, ess-tset etc.

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 08:36, David Bobroff wrote:
> It seems that for lyrics it is optional to escape the ".  It appears
> to work either way.  The problem with *not* escaping them is that the
> auto indent gets confused for anything input after that point in the
> *.ly file.  Nor does auto-highlighting of enclosures i.e.: () [] {},
> take place.  That is inconvenient.
>
> Using \ss{} doesn't work.  For some reason LilyPond fails to add
> space after the ess-tset.

\ss{} or \ss{ }?  { } is one way of protecting a space, and escaping the
space is another.  I shouldn't think that two brackets without a space
between would do anything.  daveA

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