Re: Combining multiple markups into a single, word-wrappable one?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-07-28 10:15 am, David Kastrup wrote:
> Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> writes:
>
> > Feels like a hack, but would this help?
> >
> > %%%%
> > \version "2.20.0"
> >
> > loremIpsum = \markuplist {
> >   \bold { Lorem ipsum } dolor sit amet,
> >   \italic consectetur adipiscing elit.
> > }
> >
> > \markup {
> >   \override #'(line-width . 40)
> >   \wordwrap { $@loremIpsum $@loremIpsum $@loremIpsum }
> > }
> > %%%%
>
> Why $@loremIpsum rather than \loremIpsum ?

Because it does not work:

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GNU LilyPond 2.20.0
Processing `markuplist.ly'
Parsing...
markuplist.ly:11:39: error: not a markup
  \wordwrap { \loremIpsum \loremIpsum
                                      \loremIpsum }
/usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily.scm:1093:21: In 
procedure reverse! in expression (ly:parse-file file-name):
/usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily.scm:1093:21: 
Wrong type argument in position 1: ("" (#<procedure bold-markup (layout 
props arg)> "Lorem") "elit." "adipiscing" (#<procedure italic-markup 
(layout props arg)> "consectetur") "amet," "sit" "dolor" (#<procedure 
bold-markup (layout props arg)> "ipsum") . #-7#)
====


-- Aaron Hill