I think you have already received answers to most of your questions. Here comes some more hints for your last question.
Alan Stern wrote:
6. In the second measure after the change to 2/2 time, the word "Andante" spills out both before and after the measure. The measure should expand so that the word can fit.
The relevant code from your example was: \fatText R1^\markup { \bold "Andante" } | The reason that \fatText doesn't make any difference here is that this macro is a shorthand for \override TextScript #'no-spacing-rods = ##f which only applies to ordinary text scripts, i.e. that you attach the markup to an ordinary note. When you instead attach it to a full bar rest, then it will be typeset by a layout object called MultiMeasureRestText instead. It might help to do \override MultiMeasureRestText #'no-spacing-rods = ##f (unfortunately, I don't have access to a running LilyPond here for the moment). If that doesn't help, then you could attach the text to a spacing note instead: << R1 {\fatText s1^\markup { \bold "Andante" } } >> | /Mats _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond