Re: Special Characters in Lyrics

[James]

On 06/06/14 21:23, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote:
> I'm trying to introduce an asterisk ("*") into a lyrics line in the
> following piece to indicate where the congregation should join in.
> However, I'm getting an error "unexpected *" when I try it.  Take the
> asterisk out and everything works fine.
>
> \version "2.18.2"
> \language "english"
> <<
> \new Staff \with {
>     \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
> }
> \relative c' {
>     \key f \major
>     \set Score.timing = ##f
>     \omit Stem
>     e4  f( g ) g g-- \bar "|" g g (bflat) g g f f--( g--) \bar "|" f g
> bflat bflat( c ) bflat c d-- \bar "|" c bflat a g--( a bflat g ) g--
> \bar "||"
> }
> \addlyrics {
>     The ri -- sen Lord *has robed him -- self with might; let us re --
> joice and be glad and give him glo -- ry.
>     }
> >>
>
> The only place in the documentation where I can find mention of the
> asterisk is:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/chants-psalms-and-hymns.it.html
>
>
> However, this just uses the asterisk as a regular character and has it
> in a markup, rather than a lyrics line, as so doesn't seem to be
> applicable.
>
> Any suggestions on what I need to be doing differently?
>
> Also, ideally I'd like the asterisk to be centered between "Lord" and
> "has" rather than attached to "has".  Is there a way to make that happen?
Hello,

See
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/special-characters#ascii-aliases

and then

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/list-of-special-characters

This might help.

James