can baseline-skip be absolute?

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hello all,

For many of the markup items in my scores, I use Lilypond’s built-in 
\abs-fontsize function, and Mike Solomon’s useful \absFontsize extension 
(designed for grobs that don’t respond to \abs-fontsize).

In general, this is (for me) superior to using relative font sizes, since I 
have more exact control over the look of my scores. However, there are a few 
limitations.

The first one I’d like to overcome is that baseline-skip is necessarily 
relative. Hence I can’t (e.g.) define a single bookTitleMarkup and use it in 
multiple score types with different basic staff sizes: the baseline-skip of my 
instrumental part (staff size 18.5) is larger than the baseline-skip of my full 
score (staff size 13.5).

Is there any way to set baseline-skip in absolute measurements?

Thanks,
Kieren.

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Kieren MacMillan, composer
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