Re: Adding a quote to lyrics

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Op Thu, 9 Sep 2021 17:46:13 -0400
Kira Garvie <kgarvie@gmail.com> schreef:

> Hello all,
> I am typing the lyrics to a hymn, and it has the line: The cry “To
> arms!” is heard afar and near. How do I do those quotations without
> Frescobaldi thinking it’s a string of code? Also I am the newbie-est
> of newbies with coding and this program here so please be gentle and
> very specific! Thank you!!

As Karlin wrote, you can use Ctrl+' and Ctrl+" to get those, they are
snippets in the Snippets menu.

And there is a tool in Tools→Programming→Special Characters, under
General Punctuation there are many special quotes which can be clicked
on to enter them in your LilyPond source.

Good luck!

-- 
Wilbert Berendsen (www.wilbertberendsen.nl)