Re: negative values for \hspace don't work anymore

[Keith OHara]

David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Keith OHara <k-ohara5a5a <at> oco.net> writes:
> >
> > One can reverse the change, but possibly re-introduce issue 732, with :
> >
> > scm/markup.scm
> > @@ -72,3 +72,3 @@ Example:
> >                   (head (car stencils))
> > -                 (xoff (+ space (interval-length (ly:stencil-extent head 
X)))))
> > +                 (xoff (+ space (interval-end (ly:stencil-extent head 
> > X)))))
> >              (ly:stencil-add head
> 
> Can you?  I fail to get something like
> 
> \markup { x x x \hspace #-15 x x x }
> 
> to work, 

Yes, I can.   If I make the change I indicated, then your example backspaces, 
and part (not all) of the complaint that started issue 732 returns.