Re: quotation marks in lyricmode

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Any hints possible on how to achieve quotation marks in lyrics? Preferrably
>> the language specific (German) versions.
>
> "ordinary" quotation marks should be preceded with backslashes and
> included inside external quotation marks:
>
> { b }
> \addlyrics {
>   "\"quote\""
> }
>
> to have other quotation marks, simply take advantage of Unicode
> encoding - unicode recognizes several different types of quotation
> marks and treats them as different characters.  The only problem is to
> get them, since pressing " key on the keyboard gives the " character,
> not one of the other quotations.  I usually work around this by
> pasting from a word processor or, for example, wikipedia
> (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anf%C3%BChrungszeichen):
>
> { b }
> \addlyrics {
>   „modal“
> }
>
> (i don't know if the e-mail won't distort the encoding, but when i use
> the code which i pasted above i get german quotation marks in Lily
> output)

If you are working on a typical X terminal, you might use Multi-key (I
configured it to be Shift-AltGr) followed by ", to get „ and by "> to
get ” and by "< to get “.  In the same vein, you can use ', for ‚ and '<
for ‘ and '> for ’.  And, of course >> for » and << for «.

-- 
David Kastrup