Re: Let wordwrap-field and justify-field take non-strings?

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Am So., 2. Dez. 2018 um 14:50 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>
>> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > still musing about improving markup->string, I now stumbled across
>> > \wordwrap/justify-field.
>> >
>> > Both have a condition to return visible output only if the catched
>> > input is a string (using 'wordwrap/justify-string-markup' then),
>> > whereas \fromproperty accepts markup as well.
>> > Is this intended?
>> >
>> > One could go for markup? as well and use simple 'wordwrap/justify-markup
>> > or
>> > One could do the condition as (not (string-null? (markup->string ...))).
>> > (Currently markup->string will not return anything else than an empty
>> > string, as said I'm working on improvements)
>> >
>> > Opinions?
>>
>> A string is structured by spaces and newlines, a markup list has already
>> separated elements.  How would you naturally deal with single markups?
>
> That should become the duty of markup->string
> Like:
> single-markup = \markup \line \italic { Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet }
> #(write (markup->string single-markup))
> =>
> "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"

But then any markup formatting of the fields would get lost without
warning?

-- 
David Kastrup