Unexpected \markup behavior

[Ralph Palmer]

Greetings -

I'm running 2.12.3 under a slightly older version of Ubuntu.

The recent spanBar collision discussion came at a good time for me. I was able to solve a collision of my own. However, I can't seem to figure out how to get "mf, espr." to behave the way "meno f" does. Here's a minimal example:

%%%%%%%%%% Begin Snippet %%%%%%%%%%%

\version "2.12.3"

A =
\relative c' {
  \key c \major
  \clef treble
  \time 4/4

% Works as expected:
  c'4 c c c |
  d4_\markup {
    \halign #0.5 {
      \whiteout \pad-markup #0.5 {
    \italic {"meno "} \dynamic {f}
      }
    }
  }
  d d d |

% Why doesn't this work?
  c4 c c c |
  d4_\markup {
    \halign #0.5 {
      \whiteout \pad-markup #0.5 {
    \dynamic {f} \italic {"meno "}
      }
    }
  }
  d d d |
}

B=
\relative c' {
  \key c \major
  \clef treble
  \time 4/4

  d'4 d d d |
  e4 e e e |
  d4 d d d |
  c4 c c c |
}

\score {
  \new StaffGroup <<
    \new Staff << \A >>
    \new Staff << \B >>
  >>
}
\layout {}

%%%%%%%%% End Snippet %%%%%%%%5

I'm attaching a .pdf of the output. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or steer me in the right direction?

Pondly,

Ralph

-- 
Ralph Palmer
Montague City, MA
USA
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Test.pdf
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