Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch writes: I am having great difficulty getting the hang of defining new markup commands. The examples given in the Extending manual in section 2.2.3 New markup command definition are comprehensible to me in their own right, but they aren't exactly

Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-15 Thread Philip Thomas
I am having great difficulty getting the hang of defining new markup commands. The examples given in the Extending manual in section 2.2.3 New markup command definition are comprehensible to me in their own right, but they aren't exactly simple examples, and I have so far failed to adapt

Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/5/15 Philip Thomas philip.tho...@bluewin.ch: I am having great difficulty getting the hang of defining new markup commands. The examples given in the Extending manual in section 2.2.3 New markup command definition are comprehensible to me in their own right, but they aren't exactly

Re: Defining a new markup command (e.g. \lower by a specified amount)

2012-05-15 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: If you found define-music-function code much easier to handle you may want to express your thankfulness to David Kastrup and his great parser-work. http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24 Well, let's be fair: I've not really changed