add a comment about LilyPond specific escape characters

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+2003-07-16  Heikki Junes  <hjunes@cc.hut.fi>
+
+       * lilypond-font-lock.el: add a comment about LilyPond specific
+       escape characters: ^, - and _, in the syntax table.
+
 2003-07-15  Han-Wen Nienhuys  <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
 
        * input/test/trills.ly (endHorizScript): fixes.

diff --git a/lilypond-font-lock.el b/lilypond-font-lock.el
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--- a/lilypond-font-lock.el
+++ b/lilypond-font-lock.el
@@ -152,7 +152,10 @@
            ( ?\$ . "." ) ( ?\& . "." )
            ( ?\* . "." ) ( ?\+ . "." ) ( ?\/ . "." )  ( ?\= . "." )
            ( ?\| . "." )      ; bar line
-           ( ?\- . "." ) ( ?\_ . "." ) ( ?\^ . "." ) ; accent positioners
+           ;; In LilyPond the following chars serve as escape chars, 
+           ;; e.g., c^> d-) e_( , but they are set to punctuation chars, 
+           ;; since inside strings they should not act as escape chars
+           ( ?\- . "\\" ) ( ?\_ . "." ) ( ?\^ . "." )
            ))
   )