I think you should not added control characters like newline to the markup text.When you want to have more than one line, please use the \column markup.
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/formatting-text#index-font-families \markup{ \column { \bold{hi} "" } } Regards Helge
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