Re: Question regarding "paragraph" and "p"

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Michael Vehrs <Michael.Burschik@gmx.de> skribis:

> On 1/14/21 3:23 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Michael Vehrs <Michael.Burschik@gmx.de> skribis:
>>
>>> As far as I can tell, this definition from package/base.scm means that p
>>> will only ever call paragraph with the minimum arguments, making it
>>> impossible to extend p:
>>>
>>> (define-markup (p :rest opt :key ident (class #f))
>>>     (paragraph :ident ident :class class :loc &invocation-location
>>>        (the-body opt)))
>>>
>>> I would consider this a bug. I think it would be better to define p in
>>> the usual way, and to extend markup-writer to handle a list of markup
>>> elements.
>> Doesn’t that just mean that ‘p’ is an alias for ‘paragraph’, and that
>> all you have to do is define a markup writer for ‘paragraph’?  Or am I
>> missing something?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>>
> No, it is not an alias. If I extend paragraph with further :options
> (e.g. paragraph alignment), they will not be picked up by "p".

Oh right.  How about making it an actual alias, then?

  (define p paragraph)

Thanks,
Ludo’.