Re: markups and accents inside staff

[David Kastrup]

Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> writes:

> On 2022-07-31 2:11 pm, Jim Cline wrote:
>>> Can you provide a MWE? (https://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html)
>>> --
>>> Knute Snortum
>> Sure, here is one.  The vspace is ignored, no matter what value is
>> given.
>> %%%
>> \version "2.20.0"
>> \relative c {
>>   \time 3/4
>>   g'' e' d_\markup{\hspace #-4 \vspace #-7 x}
>> }
>
> I am not certain negative \hspace or \vspace is supported.  For
> \hspace, it probably only works by fluke.

Both are supported just fine.  But a \vspace in an (implicit) \line does
not do a whole lot.  It's essentially a "strut" but it does not affect
the skyline, just dimensions.

-- 
David Kastrup