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Re: vertical line spacing of a markup


From: Kieren MacMillan
Subject: Re: vertical line spacing of a markup
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:53:37 -0500

Hi Olivier,

> There's one limitation though (and it does not feature in the documentation): 
> baseline-skip will find a compromise between the vertical extent of text in 
> the lines and the baseline-skip value, the bigger one being used.

This is just one side effect of Lilypond's flawed handling of text.
Hopefully one day, we will have proper control of text (e.g., with *leading* 
control instead of "baseline"; with the baseline actually being the reference 
point; with simpler word-wrap and hyphenation behaviour; etc.).

> There is probably a way to specify "strict" base line spacings, but I haven't 
> found it yet.

If you ever find it, please tell me!  =)

Cheers,
Kieren.


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