RE: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear

[Philip Thomas]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Holmes [mailto:address@hidden
>Sent: Monday 11 June 2012 15:13
>To: Philip Thomas; address@hidden
>Subject: Re: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Philip Thomas" <address@hidden>
>To: <address@hidden>
>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 2:04 PM
>Subject: Opening parentheses in lyrics don't appear
>
>
>> Dear fellow-users,
>>
>> I'm working on a vocal piece in which some lyrics are in parentheses,
>but
>> the opening parentheses don't appear in the output PDF file. The
>closing
>> parentheses are fine. By way of example, here's a couple of bars from
>the
>> piece:
>>
>> ================
>>
>> \version "2.14.2"
>>
>> \relative c'
>>
>> <<
>> \new Voice = "melody" {
>>  \time 12/8
>>  fis2.( f |
>>  a4.) a4 g8 g4 f8 f4. |
>> }
>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
>>  blue __ (oo -- by -- doo -- by -- doo)
>> }
>>>>
>>
>> ================
>>
>> I have looked but haven't succeeded in finding a reference to this in
>the
>> documentation or on the forum, but at this stage I don't feel
>confident in
>> reporting it as a bug. Any advice would be appreciated. Apologies, as
>> usual,
>> if I've missed an existing solution or explanation.
>>
>> BTW, I know that I can solve the problem with a work-around, e.g.
>> enclosing
>> the syllable concerned in quotes as "(oo" produces the correct result,
>but
>> it's not a very elegant solution, especially for repeated instances.
>
>
>I found I had to use the "(word" solution - I use a regex in my
>application
>that creates lilypond code to do just this.
>
>--
>Phil Holmes

Thanks Phil,

Especially for a reply within minutes, if not mere seconds, from when I
posed the question!

Not quite the reply I was hoping for, but at least it suggests that I'm not
barking up the wrong tree completely.

(If I were game enough, I might admit that when I first glanced at your
reference to the "(word" solution, I took you to mean MS Word, which can be
quite handy, using macros, in working on .ly text files to do this sort of
task. But I'm not game enough.)

If other experienced users have encountered the same problem with opening
parentheses in lyrics, this seems to me to be significant enough to be
reported as a bug, but I'm not experienced in reporting "real" bugs as
distinct from apparent errors in the documentation. Would that be making a
mountain of a molehill?

Cheers, Philip