Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: >>> I tried >>> >>> ``` >>> \markup \with-dimensions #empty-interval #empty-interval { >>> ... } >>> ``` >>> >>> and the padding to the next score gets still applied. I suspect >>> that the 'empty interval' trick only works for stuff within a score >>> but not on the top level. >> >> I'd be tempted to call that a bug: it runs contrary to the idea of >> "only spacing" in markup. Of course, having implemented that >> concept myself, you could consider me to blame, and also there would >> be the question of just how to position a watermark when the spacing >> specific to its own kind of vertical element is not being applied. >> Probably just next to the preceding element. > > It would be cool if this worked some day. However, the next best > thing would probably be to allow negative widths and heights for > `\markup` boxes (if set with `\with-dimensions` and friends).
\vspace/\hspace can go backwards. -- David Kastrup