LilyPond Internals Reference: 3.2.128 text-interface

### 3.2.128 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.

> `flag-style` (symbol)

>   The style of the flag to be used with `MetronomeMark`. Available are `'modern-straight-flag`, `'old-straight-flag`, `flat-flag`, `mensural` and `'default`

> `replacement-alist` (list)

>   Alist of strings. The key is a string of the pattern to be replaced. The value is a string of what should be displayed. Useful for ligatures.

> `text` (markup)

>   Text markup. See Formatting text.

> `text-direction` (direction)

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

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

>   Space to insert between words in texts.

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

#### Internals Reference v2.22.2 (stable-branch).