Re: Manipulating lyrics with a music function

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-10-08 8:24 pm, David F. wrote:
> macOS 10.14.6, Lilypond 2.22.1
>
> The syntax for adding quotes to lyrics is a little cluttered, so I
> thought I’d whip up a couple of little helper functions to tidy things
> up.  Two hours later I’m reaching out to the mailing list for help.
> The example below is failing in two ways.  First, I can’t figure out
> how to actually interpolate the syllable that is the input to my
> functions into the output.  Second, the hyphen between the first two
> syllables is lost.

Your functions could accept the text as markup.  Also, you should 
strongly consider using typographer's quotes, which can be input 
directly as UTF-8 or using character shorthand neither of which requires 
messing about with escaping:

%%%%
\paper { #(include-special-characters) }
\relative { \time 3/4 e'4 e4. e8 d4 e d c2. }
\addlyrics { &elqq;In -- com -- pa -- ra -- ble,&erqq; said she }

openQuote = #(define-scheme-function (text) (markup?) #{ \markup \concat 
{ “ #text } #})
closeQuote = #(define-scheme-function (text) (markup?) #{ \markup 
\concat { #text ” } #})
\relative { \time 3/4 e'4 e4. e8 d4 e d c2. }
\addlyrics { \openQuote In -- com -- pa --  ra -- \closeQuote ble, said 
she }
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill