Re: conditional highlight (without losing other definitions)

Il 11/02/2012 13:58, Federico Bruni ha scritto:
> I want to avoid using a list: that's the main purpose of my question :)
> I said it explicitly:
>  >> How can I achieve that in a smart way (i.e. without using a list of all
>  >> the \strings which can occur inside a \markup{} block)?

another option is using a backreference, but the following doesn't work:

markup_command = '(?<=\\markup\s\{)\\[[:alpha:]-]+'

also, it has a minor weakness: some people write \markup{ ... } instead 
of \markup { ... }