Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3504 in lilypond: \hspace isn't aligned properly by \fill-line (caused by fix to issue 3330)

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Comment #15 on issue 3504 by address@hidden: \hspace isn't aligned properly by  
\fill-line (caused by fix to issue 3330)
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3504

Taking a look at the LSR snippet, I see a \hspace #1 left and right, and a  
\hspace #2 in the middle.  Under the old behavior, none of them are  
distinguishable from \null, so it does not look like "people have gotten  
used to the existing behavior", more like people don't understand the  
behavior and try some handwaving around it in a manner that looks sensible  
to them, giving up eventually without checking that what they do has any  
influence.

The proposed change would make a difference between \hspace #1 and \hspace  
#2 (well, if we have just two columns, the space in the middle does not  
actually matter when it is small, but the spaces left and right will do).   
That means that people have a chance to know what they are doing.

Now a "restore old behavior" is certainly better than "talk indefinitely  
about what should be there instead of fixing a regression".  I'm working  
intermittedly on the code for this one, and I think it makes sense to  
deliver it together with the issue 3330 changes.  So I'm not going to  
invest the time to look at your patch, and I don't think that "restore the  
old semantics" makes a good fit with the logic of issue 3330.

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