Re: hspace in markup cancels other directives

[Jim Cline]

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.--Jim

> What you have effectively done is this:
>
>  \markup {
>    \smaller { \with-color #blue { \hspace #-3 } }
>    text
>  }
>
> You could explicitly group the space and text:
>
>  \markup \smaller \with-color #blue { \hspace #-3 text }
>
> Alternately, move the space outside the other commands:
>
>  \markup { \hspace #-3 \smaller \with-color #blue text }