Re: \raise

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 31 March 2005 01.47, Graham Percival wrote:
> On 29-Mar-05, at 4:01 AM, Christian Hitz wrote:
> > the proposed syntax for \raise does not work anymore (see [1]). The ""
> > is discarded. It works with " ", but this also moves the raised text
> > to the right.
>
> True.  According to the docs, the following text should be at the same
> level:
>
> \version "2.5.17"
> {
>    c'4^""^"a" c'^" "^"a"
> }
>
> developers: Shall I change the docs to reflect " ", or is "" a bug?
> - Graham

I think actually that both methods should be considered unsupported tweaks. 
I.e. you may use the tricks on your own risk, but you should be prepared that 
they can stop working anytime. They depend on the way lilypond handles text 
collisions, and this may change anytime. 

Erik