Hi Aaron, thanks for that. I thought I had tried all permutations of the order of specifications but I missed that one. It's hard to guess which one is correct.--Jim

What you have effectively done is this:

 \markup {
   \smaller { \with-color #blue { \hspace #-3 } }
   text
 }

You could explicitly group the space and text:

 \markup \smaller \with-color #blue { \hspace #-3 text }

Alternately, move the space outside the other commands:

 \markup { \hspace #-3 \smaller \with-color #blue text }

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