Re: 2.6.0: translate not working with mark

[Colin Wilding]

This may turn out to be a bit of an inconvenience.
I use "" \translate a lot to position text precisely on a score,
because AFAIK it is the only way to do it, as \translate will not work
without something in front of it.
I can confirm that convert-ly does not change "" to " ", as I noticed
the original problem when converting a score from 2.4.3.
Whilst it would not be difficult for me to change all the instances of
' "" \translate' to ' " " translate', I suspect that the positioning
of the text will not be the same, as " " has a length.  If this is the
case then I will have to go through all my existing scores and check
the positions manually.
It would be nice if \translate would work with nothing in front of it.

Colin


On 6/30/05, Erik Sandberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 June 2005 16.41, Fairchild wrote:
> > Does/will convert-ly properly handle the "" - " " vacillation?
> >
> > There was a time when both were null, but "~" worked because the tilde was
> > a non-printing character.  This too vacillates.
> >
> > Maybe the need can be eliminated?
> 
> AFAIK, the "" / " " tricks are actually unsupported - they are just considered
> hacks for making things look OK in a specific lilypond version.
> 
> Erik
> 
>