Re: negative values for \hspace don't work anymore

[Keith OHara]

Eluze <eluzew <at> gmail.com> writes:

> with negative values for \hspace
> 
> since 2.15.7 this has no effect!
> 
> I couldn't find why this change happened or where it is documented.

It changed as part of the fix for this bug
  http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=732

Does the documentation say \hspace should work with negative values?

One can reverse the change, but possibly re-introduce issue 732, with :

scm/markup.scm
@@ -72,3 +72,3 @@ Example:
                  (head (car stencils))
-                 (xoff (+ space (interval-length (ly:stencil-extent head X)))))
+                 (xoff (+ space (interval-end (ly:stencil-extent head X)))))
             (ly:stencil-add head