Hi Saul,
Thanks, but you missed the point, sorry. There's a thread about the \espressivo mark <> and how to adjust it. That's what I am referring to, not the text word 'espressivo'.
Dynamics are different to Script, which is what \espressivo is. I am wanting to snug up and align a 'p' and '<>' together, but it eludes me.
For what you are doing, I simply use the make-dynamic-script function. [Maybe that's not available in your early lilypond version?]
Andrew