I reset my laptop to abolish 'smart quotes' . Successful. But there must be other subtleties that are frustrating me. Perhaps if I type the text with textedit, then copy and paste to feed it to Ly. Or just change the suffix from .txt to .ly?
It has proved impossible to find a manual for version 2.20.0. What is it that I am doing wrong? I am inclined to think that, if Google cannot find it, then it does not exist. I do not know which would be better: use 2.18.x or 2.22.x? Ian West ======================== > On 16 Aug 2022, at 11:08, Ian West <ian42w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Hans, and Jean. > I shall try and learn up those tricks. > Ian > > ========== >> On 15 Aug 2022, at 17:01, Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 15 Aug 2022, at 17:57, Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: >>> >>> Also, when you enter the apostrophe from the keyboard, is it really >>> a straight apostrophe -> ' <- or could it be that macOS does >>> you the “favor” to replace it with a curly apostrophe -> ’ <- ? >>> LilyPond expects straight apostrophes. If this is the problem, you need >>> to fix your macOS settings somewhere to prevent those “smart quotes”. >> >> One can turn those off at System Preferences → Keyboard → Text → Use smart >> quotes and dashes. Those are reachable at least from the keyboard map I am >> using, so I decided to type them by hand at need. >> >> Also, one can add custom text replacements, which I use for example for the >> arrows above. >> >> >
