Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
Hi,
{ c'1-"p" }
is a shortcut for
{ c'1-\markup { "p" } }
both a TextScript.
Both a TextScript but with different meaning:
\displayLilyMusic { c'1-"p" }
\displayLilyMusic { c'1-\markup { "p" } }
\displayLilyMusic { c'1-\markup "p" }
outputs
{ c'1-"p" }
{ c'1-\markup \line { "p"} }
{ c'1-"p" }
In every case prepending a post-event with "-" means, let LilyPond
choose where to print.
This can be set/overridden in various mannors.
Soooooo, I've not the slightest idea where you see
errors/mistakes/faulty behaviour here.
More like "changed behavior" I think. c-p used to mean c-"p" and now
means "c-p" (which is an error as music). But since c-a never meant
anything useful with c-based note names, writing c-p would not have been
a good idea anyway.
So we are pretty much talking about "would do something close to useful
when you were lucky" behavior that changed. I think that this change in
syntax even was the topic of some LilyPond Report article from Valentin
(who had relied on c-° being interpreted as c-"°" rather than "c-°").
There are sometimes changes like that where the basic expectation "my
old sources will continue working" is not met for all values of "my old
sources". Which makes it a good idea to stick with conventions and
documented syntax rather than just throw stuff at LilyPond and stay with
anything that sticks. It might still fall off eventually.