I seem to have solved it by tweaking the Y-offset. But it's a bit odd: if I change the offset by 0.0 it moves the text position up - I'd have thought it should be unchanged. Also, it doesn't matter if I use ^ or _ to position the text if I tweak the offset.
Now, if only the internals manual gave the unit used by Y-offset it would save experimentation. \version "2.19.52" \language "english" \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff { \clef "treble" c''2 2 } \new Dynamics { s2\p \override TextScript.Y-offset = #-0.6 s2_\markup {\italic "meno " \dynamic p} } \new Staff { \clef "bass" c2 2 } >> } -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user