Re: Formatting part of a header property

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Mo., 17. Dez. 2018 um 21:36 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>
>> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Though, every string is a simple markup, yes, thus it's checked first.
>> > Why do you think it's icky?
>>
>> Because a string is formatted/treated _differently_ from a markup.
>
> Ok, so how to do it differently?
>
> Probably:
> for a string use 'wordwrap-string'
> for a markup-list use 'wordwrap' (or 'wordwrap-lines' ?)
>
> But what to do for a markup? Return empty-stencil?
> Or...?

That would still be different from what we do with simple strings.  I
don't really have a good idea.

title = "These three words"
title = \markup { These three words }

Reasonable expectation to format them the same?  The latter is the same
as

title = \markup \line { These three words }

So should we deconstruct a line markup and do a wordwrap on it, and a
wordwrap-lines on markup lists, to make a difference?  Wait, this is a
markup-command, it cannot return a list.  So it's wordwrap either way.

So what to do with a markup that isn't a line markup?

title = \markup \italic "This is a string"

Ugh again.

-- 
David Kastrup