Hi Stefano, What about
\version "2.19.53" \layout { \context { \Score \override RehearsalMark.self-alignment-X = #LEFT \override TextSpanner.to-barline = ##t \override RehearsalMark.padding = #2 \override TextSpanner.staff-padding = #2 } } \score { \new Staff { \relative c' { \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = \markup { \teeny { "align with" } } c \startTextSpan d e f | g \stopTextSpan \mark "This" a b c | } } } Hope this helps! Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user