> btw: why is it named "baseline-skip" and not "baseline-distance"?
This is historical: LilyPond's origins are with TeX, and a 'skip' in
TeX is a stretchable and/or compressable whitespace (either horizontal
or vertical).[0] The baseline-to-baseline distance is such a skip in
TeX; the corresponding variable is called `\baselineskip`. LilyPond
took the name, adapting it to its own name conventions, but this
distance is no longer stretchable or compressable.
Werner
[0] I'm omitting more details here for simplicity.
