Re: Issue 2026 (markup utility) should keep empty-markup positionless

[Marek Klein]

Hello,

2012/2/1 Robin Bannister <address@hidden>

> In 
> http://code.google.com/p/**lilypond/issues/detail?id=**2026#c32<http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2026#c32>Ian
>  Hulin wrote:
>
>> This is fixed if we move the definition of the \null markup to the before
>> the empty-markup declaration and change empty-markup to
>> (define-public (empty-markup)
>>   make-null-markup))
>> ...
>> It's built the docs successfully and run reg-tests OK.
>>
>
>
> OK, the docs say \null markup is an "empty markup", merely a single point,
> but it has _position_, which empty-markup does not.
> The following snippet demonstrates this difference:
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> offset = \markup \translate #'(9 . 9) "offset"
> \markup \line {  "concat with empty-markup:" \box \concat { \empty-markup
> \offset }  " concat with null markup: "\box \concat { \null \offset }
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>

Is this a bug report? I am not sure; 2026 is still open, is it not better
to add a coment to the issue?

Marek Klein,
bug squad