Hi David, you should rather stick to the right syntax and tweak the appearance of these texts:
\version "2.19.21" \layout { \override TextScript.font-series = #'bold } { a^"rit." a a a } Or, if you want to use it only occationally: { a^\markup \bold "rit." a a^"other" a } Cheers, Joram _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user