Re: vertically aligning text/marks/tempo

[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?  =)

Thanks,
Kieren.

p.s. Do you need help implementing the strut?
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