I'm trying to enclose some lyrics within square brackets but, for reasons too tedious to trouble the list with*, I'd like to parameterise the brackets using the \foo and \fooEnd constructs in the following pseudocode. Is there a way to do this without causing "[" and "]" to be set as separate syllables?
hopefully,
-- Graham
* it has to do with differentiating lyrics in renaissance music: black, coloured, or editorial.
\version "2.19.21"
foo = "[" fooEnd = "]"
theNotes = { \relative { e''1 d c } }
theWords = \lyricmode { Three \foo blind \fooEnd mice, }