Re: Question about baseline-skip.

[Hwaen Ch'uqi]

Greetings Torsten,

Thank you so much for the explanation AND for the examples, despite my
lack of a minimal example. It was most helpful.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 7/14/18, Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Hwaen,
>
> I get your point (although a minimal example for demonstration purposes
> would have helped).
>
> In a 20 pt score, the default font size will be 11 pt and the default
> baseline-skip will be 3 staff spaces (set in paper-defaults-init.ly).
> Within a \wordwrap block (or anything comparable), this baseline-skip will
> apply.
>
>
> Between two \markup blocks, however, there will be no baseline-skip at all:
> these boxes will just be stacked on top of each other with no padding at
> all. This becomes apparent when enclosing the markup blocks in boxes:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.19.82"
>
> \paper { line-width = #70 }
>
> \markup \override #'(box-padding . 0) \column {
>   \box \wordwrap {
>     To be, or not to be, that is the question:
>     Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
>   }
>   \box \wordwrap {
>     The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
>     Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
>     And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
>   }
>   \box \wordwrap {
>     No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
>     the heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
>     that Flesh is heir to?
>   }
> }
> %%%%%%%%%
>
> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t3887/stacking-markup.png>
>
> The boxes stick together without any space between them.
> The distance between the last line of the second box and the first line of
> the third box is a bit wider, but only because of the descender ("p") in the
> last line of the second box.
>
>
> To avoid this unwanted effect (for text paragraphs, it might be desirable
> for graphic elements), you might use \markuplist instead of \markup:
>
> %%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.19.82"
>
> \paper { line-width = #70 }
>
> \markuplist {
>   \wordwrap-lines {
>     To be, or not to be, that is the question:
>     Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
>   }
>   \wordwrap-lines {
>     The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
>     Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
>     And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
>   }
>   \wordwrap-lines {
>     No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
>     the heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
>     that Flesh is heir to?
>   }
> }
> %%%%%%%%%
>
> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t3887/stacking-markup-2.png>
>
> HTH,
> Torsten
>
>
>
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