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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{…}(eg. ‘-@w{-}-’). -
@@,@{,@}— Create an at-sign (@), a left curly bracket ({), or a right curly bracket (}). -
@tie{}— Create a variable-width non-breaking space in the text (use ‘@w{ }’ for a single fixed-width non-breaking space). Variables or numbers which consist of a single character (probably followed by a punctuation mark) should be tied properly, either to the previous or the next word. Example: ‘The letter@tie{}@q{I} is skipped’