Re: quoted text in lyric

[Stan Sanderson]

On Mar 26, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> Stan Sanderson wrote:
> > Mats-
> > Thank you for your response. I'm sorry I didn't mention version 
> > (2.1.32) and platform (OS 10.3).
> > I also failed to correctly describe what I was using to obtain the 
> > quotation marks. As mentioned in the manual (at least as I understand 
> > it), one needs to use an underscore to start a quoted word or phrase 
> > so I used _"text of song" to obtain the result I described ( <ending 
> > quote>text of song<ending quote>).
>
> What did you read that made you think that? Underscores in lyrics
> are simply replaced by spaces, nothing else.

3.11.1 Entering lyrics  (users' manual)

A word in Lyrics mode begins with: an alphabetic character, _, ?, !, :, 
', the control ...

Since double quotes are not included, I started with an underscore, 
which is recognized as the first (but non-printing) character of the 
word. The second character, then, becomes the double quote, which 
prints. However, the quote which is printed is an ending, rather than 
beginning quote.

If my text editor "smartens" the quotes, lilypond (or LaTex) complains 
about not knowing the ASCII character.

Stan