hspace behaviour

[Phil Burfitt]

Hi,

I have just upgraded from version 2.13.17 to 2.17.7.

Has the behaviour of \hspace changed in any way? It does not seem to act 
upon negative values anymore.

example:

\markup {
   \override #'(circle-padding . 0.55)
   \fontsize #-2.5 { "tune " \circle 3 \hspace #-2 "to f #" }
}

now leaves a large space between the circled "3" and the following "to f #" 
which in ver. 2.13.17 I could reduce with a negative \hspace.


Regards
Phil.