> On Oct 18, 2021, at 5:57 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > I'd lean towards defining \man like in the question and a function \maN > that takes the following markup and concatenates it. That's viciously > unclever but sometimes not having to worry whether the computer gets > everything right is its own reward.
David, can you elaborate on this suggestion a bit? \man is only a single example of the kind of function I have to write (there are similar ones for various pronouns, possessive adjectives, etc.) and so I’d like to separate the punctuation handling from the word selection (to avoid duplicate code in each function. I’m working on applying that idea to Jean’s code, but perhaps your idea is better suited to said separation. Is it anything more elaborate than establishing a function which effectively does `\markup \concat { \man, }`? And if not, is there a more succinct way of writing that? ✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝ Fr. Samuel, OSB (R. Padraic Springuel) St. Anselm’s Abbey 4501 South Dakota Ave, NE Washington, DC, 20017 202-269-2300 (c) 202-853-7036 PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ