Re: Order of markup commands can affect result

[Mark Mathias]

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On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Colin Hall <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> Sorry that I missed your email, Mathias. I was rehearsing!
>
> Thanks for handing it, Phil.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 05:36:44PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > James is a senior member of the team, and mostly concentrates on
> documentation.  Here, he's just requesting an issue to remind him that
> \markup \bold \wordwrap-lines  may not work as the user expects, and so to
> put a warning in the documents.  I'd do it as a Documentation issue,
> something like "Warn users that \markup \bold \wordwrap-lines does not work
> as expected", and a link to the mail thread.
> >
> > --
> > Phil Holmes
> >
> >
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Mark Mathias
> >   To: Colin Hall
> >   Cc: Phil Holmes
> >   Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 5:24 PM
> >   Subject: Fwd: Order of markup commands can affect result
> >
> >
> >   This is the one for which I couldn't fgure out what response, if any,
> would be appropriate...
> >   If you wouldn't mind instructing me, I'd appreciate it.
> >   Thanks!
> >   Mark
> >
> >
> >   ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >   From: James <address@hidden>
> >   Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:29 AM
> >   Subject: Re: Order of markup commands can affect result
> >   To: David Kastrup <address@hidden>, Francisco Vila <address@hidden
> >
> >   Cc: address@hidden
> >
> >
> >   hello
> >
> >
> >   On 12 March 2012 10:28, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   > Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
> >   >
> >   >> Hello,
> >   >> Maybe \wordwrap-lines can not be wrapped by \bold, but I think we
> are
> >   >> not documenting it and error message is misleading.
> >   >>
> >   >>
> >   >> % works -- bold inside
> >   >> % \markup \wordwrap-lines \bold
> >   >>
> >   >> % does not work -- bold outside
> >   >> \markup \bold \wordwrap-lines
> >   >> {
> >   >>  words words words words words words words
> >   >> }
> >   >
> >   > The top level \markup can accept a markup list (which it silently
> wraps
> >   > into \line), but intermediate markup functions can't take a markup
> list
> >   > as argument.  There is a somewhat special situation when they occur
> at
> >   > the _start_ of where a markup list is expected: in that case, they
> are
> >   > applied to _every_ element of the following markup list.
> >
> >
> >   Do we need an @warning somewhere then?
> >
> >   if so (or if something else) let me know where (or create a doc
> tracker).
> >
> >   thanks
> >
> >   --
> >   --
> >
> >   James
> >
> >
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> >
>
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