Re: 2.8.0 \flat in quotes

[Paul Scott]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> 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 } address@hidden
> >
> > { 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).
>   
Do the angle bracket delimiters still work in \column which is the point 
of all this?

Thanks,

Paul