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

[Keith OHara]

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

> now coming back to the original topic where Phil wanted to make a correction
> to the distance of the text after the \circle:

> he had to do this because overriding the circle-padding also increases the
> distance of the following object:
> 
> \markup  \center-column { 
>   \override #'(circle-padding . 0) \box  \concat { "xxx" \box \circle 3
> "xxx" } 
>   \override #'(circle-padding . 12) \box  \concat { "xxx" \box \circle 3
> "xxx" } 
> }
> 
> is this intended? and why?

I cannot image that it was intended.  

Extra space was added in the wrong places by part of the fix for issue 732.

Reversing that part of the fix (the change I indicated earlier) removes this
surprising extra space, but leaves the other aspect of issue 732 (compound
time signature) resolved.

I re-opened issue 732, suggesting to reverse just part of the original patch.