Re: Design suggestion -- was: Re: more stupid questions

[Werner LEMBERG]

> This is way too complex. Why don't you write a small
> script/program/macro-processor that will pre-process a .ly file,
> replacing
> 
>   \someWierdText
> 
> with
> 
>   \once \property Lyrics.LyricText \set #'X-extent = #(cons A B)
>   "\\someWierdText"
> 
> where A B are the dimensions of the object, and might be computed
> through a latex run.

Looks nice!  To make that really work some additional `commands' are
necessary to embed additional (La)TeX code as a pre- and postamble;
for example, to load the CJK package for Chinese and open a CJK
environment.


    Werner