2017-04-15 10:35 GMT+02:00 Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com>: > Is it documented anywhere what the units used in the markup command > \hspace are?
The general doc is at NR 5.4.3 Distances and measurements > > the documentation is: > > \hspace amount (number) > > Create an invisible object taking up horizontal space amount. > > > The "amount" appears to be smaller than the width of the "m", but larger > than a staff-space... > > Richard It's exactly staff-space. See also the terminal-output of: #(define-markup-command (demo layout props) () (let ((stil (interpret-markup layout props #{ \markup \hspace #1 #} ))) (format #t "\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n staff-space is: ~a\n length of \\markup \\hspace \\#1 is: ~a \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ " (assoc-get 'staff-space (ly:module->alist (ly:output-def-scope layout))) (interval-length (ly:stencil-extent stil X))) stil)) \markup \demo Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user