IWBNI there were a utility that would automatically replace the following character strings in lyrics:
 
 

Input	Description of Input	Output	Description of Output
%	Percent sign (37)	NBSP	Nonbreaking space (160)
#	Hash mark (35)	­	Nonbreaking hyphen (173)
'syllable	Apostrophe (39) followed by a syllable	‘syllable	Left single quote (145) followed by the syllable
`syllable	Gravè accent (96) followed by a syllable	‘syllable	Left single quote (145) followed by the syllable
syllable'	A syllable followed by an apostrophe (39)	syllable’	The syllable followed by a right single quote (146)
"syllable	Quotation mark (34) followed by a syllable	“syllable	Left double quote (147) followed by the syllable
syllable"	A syllable followed by a quotation mark (34)	syllable”	The syllable followed by a right double quote (148)
?syllable	A question mark (63) followed by a syllable	¿syllableNBSP	Inverted question mark (191) followed by the syllable followed by a nonbreaking space (160) [appended for alignment purposes]
syllable?	A syllable followed by a question mark	NBSPsyllable?	Nonbreaking space (160) [inserted for alignment purposes] followed by the syllable followed by a question mark
!syllable	An exclamation point (33) followed by a syllable	¡syllable	Inverted exclamation point (161) followed by the syllable

Note: The numbers in this table are character numbers that indicate the numeric position of a character in the ISO Latin-1 character set (ISO 8859-1). The string NBSP represents a single nonbreaking space character (160).

The characters used to specify a nonbreaking space and nonbreaking hyphen (e.g. % and #) could be user-definable. Also, a checkbox option could be used to control whether or not a nonbreaking space is added in the question-mark cases.

Created: February 1, 2000 (based on a submission from Barbara Touburg and comments by Jari Williamsson)
Last Updated: February 15, 2000 (added inverted exclamation point)
Version: Finale 2000b