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This seems quite straightforward, but I've spent far too much time struggling.

I frequently using markup of the form:

\markup \with-url#"https:\\youtu.be .....  t=214" {ref}

This creates a hyperlinked text that links directly to a spot in a video on Youtube. Each instance needs a different value after t=.

Ideally, I would like a function that can be invoke with a number or string (that's not a big deal), so that my input would look something like:

c2^\refer "346", or maybe c2^#(refer 346), or some such thing.

I have struggled with including \markup in a scheme function, or trying define-markup-function all with no success.

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This should do the trick:

vid = "videoid"
baseURL = #(format #f "https://youtube.com/watch?v=~a" vid)


#(define-markup-command (refer layout props ts) (number?)
   (interpret-markup layout props
                     (markup #:with-url (format #f "~a&t=~a" baseURL ts) "ref")))

refer =
#(define-music-function (ts) (number?)
   #{
     -\markup\refer #ts
   #})

{ c2\refer 234 }
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  • First --- MANY thanks. I never ceased to be amazed at the combination of willingness and competence. A couple of details - I am using the youtube shortened URL, so I replaced the use of (format ...) for the baseURL with the actual shortened one. And thanks for showing me the use of (format #f.... I guess at some point I should get some actual Scheme documentation. The closest I've come is writing LISP code, but that was back in the 1960s. I modified the definition of refer to take minutes and seconds and do the arithmetic to convert it to seconds, for Youtube wants. THANKS!!
    – Ken Ledeen
    Apr 8 at 3:02
  • @KenLedeen You’re welcome :). As far as I know YouTube does also take timestamps like t=1m34s, so you might just paste the timestamp together in this format and leave the arithmetic part (although it is not hard) to YouTube.
    – Lazy
    Apr 8 at 8:12
  • and now for a followup question that reveals the limit of my knowledge. from the example above, which works perfectly, I assumed that I could invoke \refer from inside my own markup commands. For example \markup \refer 3 14 But this doesn’t work. I get error messages like: ...ince.ly:234:16: error: syntax error, unexpected SYMBOL \markup \refer 1 2 My usage seems entirely consistent with the way it’s used in the defined music function. what am I not understanding?
    – Ken Ledeen
    Apr 24 at 15:58
  • @KenLedeen Resolving arguments to markup function does use much less parsing magic. So for Lilypond to know you are passing a number you actually need to pass a scheme number, e.g. do \markup\refer #1.
    – Lazy
    Apr 24 at 20:18

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