Cresc. poco a poco in gradual style, without having a hyphenated "cre-scen-do"

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You can if you check Abbreviate in the Properties

There was also a recent topic where @johnkprice did some experiments to influence the positions of the poco a poco, if you’re interested.

Gradual dynamic spacing

There is a way to obtain some control over the spacing of cresc. poco a poco: [Image] The first system uses the settings given by @charles_piano in post #2 except that Poco a poco is not checked and Suffix is set to “ poco a poco” without the quotes. The remaining systems replace one or more spaces in poco a poco with the sequence space, Unicode no-break space (U+00A0), and space. The second system replaces the space in poco a, the third system replaces the space in a poco, and the last syste…