Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 07.11, Paul Scott wrote:
> \version "2.8.0"
>
> This doesn't work:
>
> { c''1^\markup{ "B \flat" } }
>
> These work:
>
> { c''1^\markup{ B \flat } }
>
> { c''1^\markup{ \line{ B \flat } } }
>
> I needed something to work in \column.  I first tried the quotes which
> didn't work and then \line which did.  I would prefer the quotes to
> work.  Is this a bug?

no. Stuff within quotes is always interpreted as a pure text string, and it 
can't contain any formatting instructions (this was different in v2.4 and 
earlier).

-- 
Erik