Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you put something within double quotes, LilyPond will treat it as
a single character string. In my opinion, this makes perfect sense.
How else would you for example be able to print the text "\flat"
in you needed it?

  /Mats

Paul Scott wrote:

> \version "2.8.0"
>
> This doesn't work:
>
> { c''1^\markup{ "B \flat" } }
>
> These work:
>
> { c''1^\markup{ B \flat } }
>
> { c''1^\markup{ \line{ B \flat } } }
>
> I needed something to work in \column.  I first tried the quotes which 
> didn't work and then \line which did.  I would prefer the quotes to 
> work.  Is this a bug?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul Scott
>
>
>
>
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