Re: \raise

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18.04, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Thursday 31 March 2005 01.47, Graham Percival wrote:
> > On 29-Mar-05, at 4:01 AM, Christian Hitz wrote:
> > > the proposed syntax for \raise does not work anymore (see [1]). The ""
> > > is discarded. It works with " ", but this also moves the raised text
> > > to the right.
> >
> > True.  According to the docs, the following text should be at the same
> > level:
> >
> > \version "2.5.17"
> > {
> >    c'4^""^"a" c'^" "^"a"
> > }
> >
> > developers: Shall I change the docs to reflect " ", or is "" a bug?
> > - Graham
>
> I think actually that both methods should be considered unsupported tweaks.
> I.e. you may use the tricks on your own risk, but you should be prepared
> that they can stop working anytime. They depend on the way lilypond handles
> text collisions, and this may change anytime.

BTW, this is in no way an "official statement" from The Lilypond Developers, 
it's just my own opinion.

Erik