The documentation for \markup
alignment lists two essentially different padding commands: \pad-around
or \pad-markup
, which adds the same amount of space all around the element, and \pad-x
, which adds left and right padding while leaving the top and bottom unpadded.
Is there any one command that only adds vertical padding? Or do I need to do something like
\pad-around #0.5 \pad-x #-0.5 { STUFF }
to achieve that?
ETA: My overarching goal is to correctly white out the parts of bar lines that would otherwise intersect with expressive marks, like so:
The full code can be found here at LilyBin.