Re: Markup vertical alignment

[David Kastrup]

Valentin Villenave <address@hidden> writes:

> On 5/20/20, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Could someone oblige?
>
> Happy to:
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/67
>
> I also took the opportunity of addressing a comment I left when
> writing NR 1.8 more than a dozen years ago, about \hspace and \vspace
> (the latter of which was not even officially included back then). Talk
> about a blast from the past…

\hspace and \vspace have changed since then in that they have empty
height and width, respectively (not even including a single point).  And
the spacing engine takes that as a clue not to add additional normal
separation space (interword, linespace).

So they usually take up less space than previously and are more
convenient.

\markup { word \hspace #0 space }

now is the same visually as

\markup { word space }

when it used to add wordspace twice, once before \hspace #0 and once
behind it.

-- 
David Kastrup