Re: Making markup functions parametric

[David Kastrup]

Lukas-Fabian Moser <lfm@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi David,
>
>> test =
>> #(define-scheme-function (enclosure content)
>>    (markup-function? markup?)
>>    (list enclosure #{ \markup \box #content #}))
>>
>> \markup \test \markup \circle \with-color #red \etc "whatever"
>
> Amazing, wonderfully elegant.
>
> Is there a way to avoid the second "\markup" and "\etc" in \markup
> \test \markup \box \etc "whatever" ?

No.

> Of course I can do
>
> circlefunc = \markup\circle\etc
> \markup \test \circlefunc "whatever"

You can?  Have you tried?  \circlefunc here is quite equivalent to
\circle .

-- 
David Kastrup