Re: Markup functions and punctuation in lyrics

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-11-02 2:56 pm, R. Padraic Springuel wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2021, at 1:00 PM, Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> 
> wrote:
> > Not sure if this was already suggested, but could you use something 
> > like this to concatenate arbitrary markup?
>
> I think that what you’re suggesting is in the spirit of what David was
> suggesting, but I’m trying to reduce the input overhead at this point
> and feel like what you propose increases it slightly.

Okay, would text replacement be viable as opposed to writing a bunch of 
individual functions?

%%%%
feminine =
#'(("man/woman" . "woman")
   ("his/her" . "her")
   ("he/she" . "she"))

\markup \replace \feminine {
  The man/woman, tightly clutching his/her jacket, braved the
  bitter cold as he/she searched for his/her missing dog.
}
%%%%

Note that you can install such text replacements at the global level to 
affect all markup without needing the explicit call to \replace:

%%%%
neutral =
#'(("man/woman" . "person")
   ("his/her" . "their")
   ("he/she" . "they"))

\paper { #(add-text-replacements! neutral) }

\markup {
  The man/woman, tightly clutching his/her jacket, braved the
  bitter cold as he/she searched for his/her missing dog.
}
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill