Re: Opening parenthesis in lyrics has to be in quotes

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> news:address@hidden
>> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> But not a closing one.  Given that it's impossible that it could be a
>>> slur, I think it's a bug that it needs to be enclosed in quotes with
>>> its word, like this: "(word".
>>
>> I don't think that closing quotes are treated differently, you just are
>> less likely to write )word and word( than the other way round.
>>
>> -- 
>> David Kastrup
>
> I've just checked and you're correct.  It's either ( or ) that
> prefixes a syllable.  Postfixed versions of either are OK.  Even more
> reason that this is a bug, IMHO.

<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2598>


Reported by project member address@hidden, Today (1 minute ago)

Allow brackets and parens to start lyrics, disallow "accents"

[] and () are considered as punctuation in lyrics and can start them.
In contrast, "TeX accents" \' \" \` \^ are quite ridiculous to
"support" in lyrics since LilyPond has not been using TeX for a long
time now, so those sequences are no longer considered special in
lyrics.

http://codereview.appspot.com/6297074

-- 
David Kastrup