Re: Special Characters in Lyrics

[David Kastrup]

"Br. Samuel Springuel" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

Use quotes:  Lord "*has" robed him ...

> 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?

Can't think of something easy.

-- 
David Kastrup