Re: Issue 1818 in lilypond: Inconsistent baseline-skip in markups with multi-rows commands

[lilypond]

Comment #1 on issue 1818 by address@hidden: Inconsistent  
baseline-skip in markups with multi-rows commands
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1818

A call to \column-lines makes the trick:

\markuplines \column-lines {
  \justified-lines { a a a a a a a a a a a a }
  "a"
}

The commands \column-lines, \justified-lines, etc add some padding around  
the markup lines that they generate, so that the lines are regularly  
placed.  In you example, the last "a" is not given this extra padding.  See  
e.g:

\markuplines {
  a b c d g
}

I don't understand the sentence:

> I think this would be avoided if multi-rows commands were really creating  
> a
> new markup for each line instead of making a single markup.

as markup-list commands do create a new markup for each line.

So, a possible fix for this issue consists in explaining in the  
documentation how to get regularly placed lines in \markuplines.

If one thinks that this should be the default, then an implicit call to  
\column-lines shall be added when dealing \markuplines.

Nicolas