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Special characters
Note: In Texinfo, the backslash is an ordinary character, and is entered without escaping (e.g. ‘The @code{\foo} command’). However, within double-quoted Scheme and/or LilyPond strings, backslashes (including those ending up in Texinfo markup) need to be escaped by doubling them:
(define (foo x)
"The @code{\\foo} command..."
...)
-
--,---– create an en dash (–) or an em dash (—) in the text. To print two or three literal hyphens in a row, wrap one of them in a@w{…}(e.g., ‘-@w{-}-’). Note that the LilyPond manuals almost never use em dashes in text. -
@@,@{,@}– create an at-sign (‘@’), a left brace (‘{’), or a right brace (‘}’). -
@tie{}– create a variable-width, non-breaking space in the text (use ‘@w{ }’ for a single fixed-width, non-breaking space). Variables or numbers that consist of a single, unquoted character (probably followed by a punctuation mark) should be tied properly, either to the previous or to the next word depending on context. Example: ‘… item@tie{}3 in the previous list …’