Re: vertically aligning text/marks/tempo

[Urs Liska]

Am 19.10.2016 um 15:37 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> Hi Urs,
>
>>> Of course, you still have to manually deal with the [long-standing and 
>>> long-irritating] fact that texts are not baseline-aligned, but 
>>> bottom-aligned… 
>> Oh my, this is the reason ...
> Yes. I’ve never seen a good reason for why Lilypond chose (chooses) this 
> implementation, nor a good explanation of why it would be any more difficult 
> to fix it to be the more intuitive (and text-setting industry standard) 
> baseline alignment. As long as the skylines are calculated according to the 
> new alignment/placement, it should be equally easy to manipulate 
> baseline-aligned text.
>
> Maybe you can be the one to finally tackle this issue?  =)

I don't have the slightest idea how that should be approached, sorry ...

>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
>
> p.s. Do you need help implementing the strut?

Well, for this example I simply added white letters to the two markups,
ehm ... (after I didn't immediately manage to automatically concat them
through a function)

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