Re: Lower-case letter rehearsal marks

[Thomas Morley]

2015-12-13 0:16 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Though, I thought about some sort of macro, doing the job like:
>>
>> %% the macro:
>> \simple-define-markup-command
>> %% the args:
>>   % name:
>>   bold-red
>>   % body:
>>   \bold \with-color #red \etc
>>
>> I think it would prevent some confusions.
>
> \etc is not a "body".  It's a "the last markup command is incomplete,
> defer to its signature for the types of the missing arguments" marker.
> And you have nothing in your "macro" that would actually switch the
> "body" into markup mode.  To me, that looks like being harder to explain
> to both compiler and user.

Harder to the compiler? Yes, not hard to imagine.
To the user? I'm not sure. But that's only me.

This is the user-list, though, other users could step in as well...


Cheers,
  Harm