LilyPond Internals Reference: 3.2.115 text-interface

### 3.2.115 text-interface

A Scheme markup text, see Formatting text and New markup command definition.

There are two important commands: `ly:text-interface::print`, which is a grob callback, and `ly:text-interface::interpret-markup`.

#### User settable properties:

> `baseline-skip` (dimension, in staff space)

>   Distance between base lines of multiple lines of text.

> `text` (markup)

>   Text markup. See Formatting text.

> `word-space` (dimension, in staff space)

>   Space to insert between words in texts.

> `text-direction` (direction)

>   This controls the ordering of the words. The default `RIGHT` is for roman text. Arabic or Hebrew should use `LEFT`.

This grob interface is used in the following graphical object(s): BalloonTextItem, BarNumber, BassFigure, BreathingSign, ChordName, CombineTextScript, DoublePercentRepeatCounter, DynamicText, DynamicTextSpanner, Fingering, FootnoteItem, FootnoteSpanner, InstrumentSwitch, LyricText, MetronomeMark, MultiMeasureRestNumber, MultiMeasureRestText, NoteName, OctavateEight, OttavaBracket, PercentRepeatCounter, RehearsalMark, SostenutoPedal, StanzaNumber, StringNumber, StrokeFinger, SustainPedal, TabNoteHead, TextScript, TupletNumber, UnaCordaPedal and VoltaBracket.

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