With apologies for continuing to flog this subject...
I've taken David Kastrup's advice, and upgraded to 2.19.32, and I might
now be able to simplify this problem quite radically, and eliminate some
limitations, with a small change of syntax.
Below is the germ of the idea. The thing I'm missing is a markup
function to take an arbitrarily long stretch of lyrics, prepend "[" to
the first syllable, and append "]" to the last syllable. Is this even
possible in principle? Or am I wasting my time?
As a side issue:
I don't really understand why I can write:
redden = \markup \with-color #red \etc
reduced = \markupMap LyricEvent.text \redden \etc
but not:
reduced = \markupMap LyricEvent.text \markup \with-color #red
\etc
gratefully, as ever...
-- Graham
\version "2.19.32"
redden = \markup \with-color #red \etc
italicise = \markup \italic \etc
%bracketise = % some markup function here???
reduced = \markupMap LyricEvent.text \redden \etc
% either:
editorial = \markupMap LyricEvent.text \italicise \etc
% or:
%editorial = \markupMap LyricEvent.text \bracketise \etc
% or perhaps just:
%editorial = \bracketise \etc
theNotes = {
\time 6/4 \relative {
e'2. d c1. e2. d2 d4 c1. \break
g'2. f e1. g2. f2 f4 e2.~e2 g4
}
}
theWords = \lyricmode {
Three blind mice, see \markup { \concat { [ how } } they run.
Three \reduced { blind mice, see \editorial { how they } run. }
}
\score
{
\new StaffGroup
<<
\new Voice = "voice" \theNotes
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" \theWords
>>
}
%%} %Test harness ends.
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