Re: Special Characters in Lyrics

[Matthew Collett]

On 7/06/2014, at 8:23 am, Br. Samuel Springuel <address@hidden> 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.  

> 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?

In such situations I use:
\set stanza = \markup{"*"}

(Or more precisely, I define:
aster = \set stanza = \markup{"*"}
and then use
\aster
)

Best wishes,
Matthew