Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

[-Eluze]

Philip Thomas-2 wrote:
> 
> Dear fellow-users,
> 
> I'm working on a vocal piece in which some lyrics are in parentheses, but
> the opening parentheses don't appear in the output PDF file. The closing
> parentheses are fine. By way of example, here's a couple of bars from the
> piece:
> 
> 

you can use text-replacements, see NR 3.3.3 Special characters. ASCII
aliases

it's described there how to add your own characters, e.g.

\paper {
  #(add-text-replacements!
    '(
      ("&lparen;" . "(")))
}

I don't know if its really elegant!?

hth
Eluze
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