Re: lyluatex and distance between systems

[David Kastrup]

David Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri 06 Nov 2015 at 08:57:36 (+0100), Marc Hohl wrote:
>> Am 05.11.2015 um 21:05 schrieb David Wright:
>
>> > NBSP = \lyricmode { " " } % non-breakable space
>
>> Thanks for these ideas, I'll give it a try!
>
> Posting things here makes you check things out. I have one .ily with
>
> NBSP = \lyricmode { " " }
>
> and another with
>
> NBSP = \markup { " " }
>
> AFAICT the latter works everywhere that the former does, but also in
> a few extra places too.
>
> My actual .ily files don't contain those "" because they're not
> needed; I added them to the posting for clarity. (I notice that the
> NBSP character itself didn't survive your quoting mechanism so I
> re-inserted it above.) But it might be safer to write
>
> NBSP = \markup { \char ##x00A0 }
>
> to prevent any loss during cut-and-paste etc, and that's what I've
> finally settled on.

You know that this is different from

NBSP = \markup \char ##x00A0

and instead equivalent to

NBSP = \markup \line { \char ##x00A0 }

?

That's different in several respects.

-- 
David Kastrup