Re: within \markup, how to \translate by width of another markup?

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

> Within a markup, I want to `\translate` an object by the x-extent of
> another markup.  How can I do that?
>
> While we have `\with-dimensions` and friends to adjust the size of an
> object, it seems to me that we don't have something similar for
> offsets...  Would it be necessary to define
> `\translate-with-dimensions` and similar commands?

Can't you just concat a \with-dimensions ... \null together with what
you want to see shifted?

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David Kastrup