> 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.
Is it? I don't think so. Just bear in mind whether you have used up
all arguments of a markup command. In your case,
\smaller expects one argument
\with-color #blue expects one more argument, thus not finished yet
\hspace #-3 no more argument is expected, thus the chain of
commands stops here: `\smaller \with-color
#blue` gets applied to `\hspace #-3`, which
doesn't make sense, of course
text gets typeset as-is, since the previous commands
are already applied
Werner
