Re: \justify & break

[Thomas Morley]

2017-10-05 9:32 GMT+02:00 Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden>:
> On 5 October 2017 at 09:28, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> 2017-10-05 6:56 GMT+02:00 Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden>:
>>
>> > By the way why \justify-string use the scheme syntax and it is not a
>> > first
>> > class citizen of lilypond language?
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. I don't know what a "first class citizen of
>> lilypond language" might be.
>
>
> Why \justify-string use the scheme-syntax and not the lilypond syntax?

You probably mean why the # is requiered?

Well, historically most arguments in lilypond needed to be prepend by #.
Due to much work, mostly by David Kastrup, we nowadays can omit the #
pretty often. But markupmode is a special thingy. Most kinds of
arguments still need it and all strings, even:
\markup \simple #"foo"
Can't say more without diving deep into the source-code.
David?

Cheers,
  Harm