Re: Two lyrics questions

[Geoff Horton]

> 1: I want to begin a word with a ( . I need to do this to indicate how a
> vowel is to be pronounced - e.g. (ch)il(d) . I've tried various things -
> using escape sequences as described in the manual, preceeding the bracket
> with a \ etc. but nothing gives me clean output (i.e. without other
> characters.) Is there a way of doing this?

Enclose it in double quotes, like this: "(ch)il(d)".

I've never tried to do what you describe in your second question, so I
can't help you there.

Geoff