As a programmer in other languages, I like to think of arguments being
enclosed in some kind of brackets, like a function f(x,y(z)). That's why
I alway enclose what I'm marking up within {}; what's inside are the
arguments of the markup. Using your explanation then it looks like
bes^\markup{\hspace #-3 \smaller{\with-color #blue {text}}}
That helps me understand, thanks.
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Hi Aaron, thanks for that. I thought I had tried all permutations
of the order of specifications but I missed that one. It's hard to
guess which one is correct.
Is it? I don't think so. Just bear in mind whether you have used up
all arguments of a markup command. In your case,
\smaller expects one argument
\with-color #blue expects one more argument, thus not finished yet
\hspace #-3 no more argument is expected, thus the chain of
commands stops here: `\smaller \with-color
#blue` gets applied to `\hspace #-3`, which
doesn't make sense, of course
text gets typeset as-is, since the previous commands
are already applied
Werner
