First of all, this has nothing to do with variables, you will get
exactly the same result using \markup{ "FOO""." } (which by the way
is equivalent to \markup{ "FOO" "." } ).
Rather, the explanation to the space can be found in the documentation
of the \line text markup command. You could for exam
When using a variable (or macro?) in markup, there's an extra
space at the end of the string. In the three lines below, the middle
line has an extra space (FOO_.) between the FOO and the period.
%% Fink 2.7.3
\version "2.6.0"
\header{
var = "FOO"
tagline = \markup{ \center-align {
\line {FOO
