Have you tried ``this syntax'' yet? This is the right way to do it in LaTeX and works well in LilyPond as well.
Stan Sanderson wrote:
On Mar 26, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:> ...
What did you read that made you think that? Underscores in lyrics are simply replaced by spaces, nothing else.
3.11.1 Entering lyrics (users' manual)
A word in Lyrics mode begins with: an alphabetic character, _, ?, !, :, ', the control ...
Since double quotes are not included, I started with an underscore, which is recognized as the first (but non-printing) character of the word. The second character, then, becomes the double quote, which prints. However, the quote which is printed is an ending, rather than beginning quote.
If you keep reading on the page, you'll find exactly an example of that answers your original question: He said: "\"Let" my peo ple "go\"" However, I'll add a comment in the manual about the prefer solution He said: ``Let my peo ple go''
If my text editor "smartens" the quotes, lilypond (or LaTex) complains about not knowing the ASCII character.
If you use and editor that knows LaTeX (such as Emacs with LaTeX mode), it will smarten the quotes the right way.
/Mats
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