Re: Some text formatting advice

[Urs Liska]

Am 23.07.2018 um 15:25 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle:
> Urs Liska-3 wrote
> > Now I'll "only" have to find a reliable way of referring the block text
> > formatting to LaTeX (and in a way that it looks consistent with the
> > remaining text ...
>
> Yes, LaTeX adds a new level of complexity (at least as far as consistent
> typography is concerned), but after all, it'd be great if LilyPond had some
> of the mighty TeX features (boxes in general, italic correction, etc.).

It was agreed upon (IIRC) to *not* try to achieve that same quality. 
After all, that's what LaTeX is essentially renowned for. What seems 
like a somewhat more natural (although anything but straightforward) 
approach is to make it easier to include text elements/blocks that have 
been encoded in the .ly file and typeset with LaTeX.

> But (back to topic) I just noticed that your first "Longa." box had an empty
> third line.
>
> If you remove this empty third line, even without overriding
> outside-staff-priority, the markup box will not be pushed up as long as the
> notes fit beneath it. It was this "place holder's" fault that the text had
> been pushed up,
>
> staff-padding will use the top line of the box for alignment and you don't
> need to fill it up by adding empty lines.
> I just inserted an empty line in between to match the faksimile.
>
> This all seems confusing because one does not see exaclty what's happening
> and how positioning is actually done.
> In these cases, I often use boxes (with box-padding 0) around markup blocks
> in order to see the actual extents of the markup. From LilyPond's point of
> view, this does not happen "without no need" at all, and the box clearly
> shows the empty third line adding to the box depth.
>
> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t3887/test-text-align-2.png>
>
> above: invisible empty line causes unwanted offset.
> below: skylines work as expected

Thanks for the clarification, I think I see it now.

Best
Urs

> HTH
> Torsten
>
>
>
> --
> Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html
>
> _______________________________________________
> lilypond-user mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user