Re: Markup functions and punctuation in lyrics

[R. Padraic Springuel]

> On Oct 18, 2021, at 5:57 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> I'd lean towards defining \man like in the question and a function \maN
> that takes the following markup and concatenates it.  That's viciously
> unclever but sometimes not having to worry whether the computer gets
> everything right is its own reward.

David, can you elaborate on this suggestion a bit?  \man is only a single 
example of the kind of function I have to write (there are similar ones for 
various pronouns, possessive adjectives, etc.) and so I’d like to separate the 
punctuation handling from the word selection (to avoid duplicate code in each 
function.  I’m working on applying that idea to Jean’s code, but perhaps your 
idea is better suited to said separation.  Is it anything more elaborate than 
establishing a function which effectively does `\markup \concat { \man, }`?  
And if not, is there a more succinct way of writing that?

✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝
Fr. Samuel, OSB
(R. Padraic Springuel)
St. Anselm’s Abbey
4501 South Dakota Ave, NE
Washington, DC, 20017
202-269-2300
(c) 202-853-7036

PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ