Dan Eble <d...@faithful.be> writes:

>> On Jul 19, 2017, at 15:19, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Paul <p...@paulwmorris.com <mailto:p...@paulwmorris.com>> writes:
>> 
>>> It's usually `a = b` or `\a b` but not `\a = b` or `\a b = c`.
>> 
>> You can only use markup functions when refered to in markup mode, so it
>> makes sense to me to define them in markup mode.
>
> The phrase “define them in markup mode” suggests this to me:
>
>       \markup { blabla = \with-color #red \etc }

markup mode does not take braces.  Braces are for markup lists.
\markup { ... } is short for \markup \line { ... } and this really makes
a mess of your suggestion.

I mean, bikeshedding is nice but I haven't yet seen a proposal here that
isn't a major stepback.

-- 
David Kastrup

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