Markup text simplification

[Mark Probert]

Hi.

I the score I’m currently working on littered with expressions like

  fis2 r4 f4^\markup { \italic \smaller “schaftlich" } |

Is there a way to write a substitution macro that means I could write

 

  fis2 r4 f4^\itmark “schaftlich"  |

instead?

Thanks again

-mark.