Re: hspace behaviour

[Phil Burfitt]

> Eluze wrote

> Phil Burfitt wrote
> > 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.
>
> obviously it disappeared with version 2.15.7, but I don't know the reasons
>
> forwarded this question to the bug-list:
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/negative-values-for-hspace-don-t-work-anymore-td136610.html
>
> thanks for your report!
>
> Eluze

Thanks!

I've just discovered \translate (don't know how I've missed that one for so 
long!) which does the job nicely, though why am I having to do this? why is 
there so much space after the circled "3" ?

Regards,
Phil.