Re: Request for East Asian emphasis points

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-09-28 10:43 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> Since these markings would presumably be infrequent in your scores,
> sticking with dots for the moment, you could always make a markup
> consisting of the character in a column with a dot/etc glyph. Roll
> your own. Tedious yes. You could write a markup function to do it (ask
> me, if you think this is viable). In fact, I can't think of any other
> way of doing it at the moment.

I could not resist.  (:

The new \text-emphasis markup command mostly maps to the CSS style of 
the same name but does not have full feature parity.  Of note, the 
markup command will apply the emphasis mark to any character, whereas 
the CSS standard says to omit marks for certain character classes (Z* 
and P*, in particular).

Usage should be straightforward:

%%%%
\markup \concat { これは \text-emphasis  日本語 の文章です。 }
%%%%

Attached you will find a more complex series of tests and usage 
examples.

(I had to include my UTF8 string splitting code in order to handle CJK 
characters properly, so you will need to scroll down a bit to get to the 
markup command itself.)


-- Aaron Hill

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