Re: null markup

[Mats Bengtsson]

As far as I can understand, a \hspace #0 gives a markup that is
0pt wide but has a height that is the total height (i.e. the depth + the
height) of the characters in the font. That's the only way I can explain
what happens in your example. However, I'm not sure if that's a good
behaviour for \null in general. Consider for example the difference
between the two boxes in

\markup{\box \column { A \line {a \hspace #0.0 } }
        \box \column { A \line {a \null} } }

I think the current implementation of \null behaves more intuitively.
On the other hand, the alignment issues of markups in general are far
from clear.

  /Mats



Graham Percival wrote:
> Could \null mimic the behavior of \hspace #0 ?  It would be nice if we
> could use it in the following way:
>
> \layout{ raggedright=##t}
> { \fatText
>   c4^\markup{ \null aaa}
>   c4^\markup{ \null qqq}
>   c4^\markup{ \hspace #0 aaa}
>   c4^\markup{ \hspace #0 qqq}
> }
>
>
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