\raise in markup (lilypond 1.7.13)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to raise text markup with lilypond 1.7.13.
> I believe I've followed the manual instructions... but can't achieve 
> what I'd would like to.

texts like these are alignedt such that the bottom of the text
coincides with the top of the staff. Any \raise is annulled in this
way. Try (for example)

 \markup  { "" \raise #2.0 { .. } }

(you may want to set #'word-space to #0 to suppress the space between
"" and \raise. )


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