Thank you all for the various suggestions regarding this problem. Some of the latest posts have left me slightly bewildered: I wasn't aware that there was a problem with having a RehearsalMark and a MetronomeMark at the same point in a piece. Of course, they are formatted and aligned differently by default.
I am currently using v.2.19.48, so may be I just never needed both at the same time when I was using 2.18 or earlier, but if that is the case it surprises me. In the instance that I originally enquired about it is of academic importance in any case, because I need a title, a barline fermata and a tempo marking all at the same double bar. Following Wols's suggestion of formatting multiple marks as a column within a single mark, I came up with the following solution, which works pretty well. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \version "2.19.48" \markuplist \table-of-contents songTitle = "This Song" songName = { \once \override Score.RehearsalMark.self-alignment-X = #-0.79 \mark \markup \column { \transparent "spacer" \bold \songTitle \center-align \musicglyph #"scripts.ufermata" } } { c''1 \tocItem \songTitle \songName c''2 b' c''1 } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The value of self-alignment-X has to be found by trial and error, but is then good, it seems, for score and parts. The horizontal alignment of the title in relation to the fermata (and therefore to the barline) could also be altered fairly easily. The transparent item is there just to increase the space between this system and the preceding one - it's the only way I could find to do it, but I am sure there must be better ways. David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user