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From: | Simon Albrecht |
Subject: | Replacing a certain character sequence in lyrics |
Date: | Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:53:14 +0200 |
Hello everybody,I have a favour to ask from any LilyPond-Guile crack on the list, because I couldn’t quite figure it out myself: (technical requirement here, rationale in PS.)
For a scholarly edition project, I’d like to have a global boolean variable and a toplevel music function that goes through all lyric syllables and replaces (for example) two apostrophes "’’" with either a single apostrophe "’" or nothing, depending on the value of that global switch variable. How could such a music function be done?
Best, SimonPS. The reason behind this is: Haydn’s „Jahreszeiten“ use a lot of apostrophes in the original German text; some of them seem weird to the modern eye and don’t help understanding, while others are perfectly normal. I would like to be able to easily switch between modernising spelling in that regard or just leaving it as is, and I figured the way to go would be coding the ‘weird’ ones as double apostrophes and having a toplevel-music-function deal with them.
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