Re: Midstring markup

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > Pango actually supports a simple markup scheme of itself. It would be 
> > nice if there were a
> >
> >  \pangoMarkup  #"<b>bold</b>"
> >
> > command that uses Pango's facilities to format text.
> I don't see the point of introducing yet another "programming language" 
> and syntax
> to use in .ly files, especially since we already have markup commands 
> that do the
> same thing.

1. it's relatively easy to do.

2. The problem is that lily's markup language doesn't know anything 
about multilingual issues, and will almost always mess up details of 
word/letterspacing when combined with bidi text and changing languages.

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