David Kastrup wrote
> Eluze <
> eluzew@
> > writes:
>
>> 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" }
>> }
>>
>> hspace.png
>> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n136649/hspace.png>
>>
>> is this intended? and why?
>
> Well, as I explained \hspace special-cases negative distances by setting
> _both_ left and right border of the stencil to a negative value rather
> than just the right one. So the padding sees the left border and pushes
> out.
now looking at \box with \pad-to-box:
using a negative value in the first of the horizontal pair of numbers draws
a box to the left of the boxed object, thus boxing what is already there,
and putting extra-space to the right - shouldn't the boxed object be treated
as a new object which is considered when calculating further spacing?
it seems all very confusing and not practically unusable!
shall I raise an issue to clarify all this?
Eluze
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