Re: Quotation mark in lyrics

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "LilyPond User Group" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: Quotation mark in lyrics


> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28:05PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > Turns out that the way I have been doing quotation marks in lyric
> > lines: " is to use 2 single apostrophes: ''.  This looks OK until
> > I'm now using it in italics and it looks bad.  I've tried \" and /"
> > and neither work and I can't find an example in the NR, LM or LSR.
>
> Second image from the top on:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#entering-lyrics
>
> ?  I have no idea why the syntax is that clunky, but doc-wise it's
> pretty much where I expected it to be.
>
> Cheers,
> - GRaahm

I use a Regex to translate the quote mark that Noteworthy creates (\") into 
the LilyPond quote mark.  Would anyone like to guess how many consecutive 
backslashes I have to use in c# to find the 2 characters \"  ?


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Phil Holmes