Re: Lower-case letter rehearsal marks

[Thomas Morley]

2015-12-10 11:58 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Not sure why
>>   foo-markup = \markup \bold \with-color #cyan \markletter \etc
>>   \markup \foo #1
>> does not work, as opposed to
>>   bold-red-markup = \markup \bold \with-color #red \etc
>>   \markup \bold-red "text"
>
> Anyway, should this rather work using the syntax
>
> \markup bold-red = \bold \with-color #red \etc
>
> ?  this would have the advantage of hiding the way \markup introduces
> its own name space, and one could use the full define-markup-command
> resulting in (markup #:bold-red ...) and make-bold-red-markup working as
> well.

Nice advantages.

> But it seems weird to use this for \etc-style functions only.

And right now
\markup bold-red
prints the string "bold-red".

Having
\markup bold-red = <ẃhat-ever>
,i.e. a definition might lead to confusions.
Is it possible to create a sort-of-markup-macro to be used like:

\sort-of-markup-macro sort-of-markup-macro-name = <whatever>

instead?
(Just brain-storming)

> And the
> whole markup-macro machinery is crazy anyway.

I trust your expertise.


Cheers,
  Harm