Re: align in \markup

[David Kastrup]

MING TSANG <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,Eluze & David: 
>
> I try Eluze' suggestion and the result is much better.

It's not "better", it's different.  LilyPond aligns material along a
baseline, and the baseline is at coordinate 0.  One designs character
and path statements such that they are in a good position with regard to
this baseline: if you centered every character on an axis, the result
would be pretty unreadable, and _ and - would be indistinguishable.

\general-align #Y #CENTER overrides the decision encoded in
character/path regarding its baseline.  But that means that you can no
longer make your own decision about the best place of the baseline by an
appropriate choice of coordinates.

-- 
David Kastrup