Re: \center-column sometimes appears not to reserve space.

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2010, um 15:43:42 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> Take a look at the following:
>> 
>> \markup { \concat { \center-column { Ooooooh ah }
>>        \center-column { Ah oooooooh }
>>        \center-column { Ooooooh ah }
>>        } }
>> 
>> It would appear that the middle column has no horizontal size at all.
>> I think that's a regression in comparison to the last stable version.
>
> No. The issue is rather that center-column has an alignment point at
> the center, so the center of the column is placed where the left edge
> should be.  As a result, for each center-column, the left half
> collides with the previous markups.

> A long while ago, I created a patch, but that caused severe problems
> with fret diagrams.

Would that be because the patch had problems, or because fret diagrams
rely on buggy behavior?

-- 
David Kastrup