Multiple tempo fonts

Hi everyone. I’ve been trying to figure out the difference between font styles and paragraph styles related to tempo fonts, and I’m pulling my hair out.

All I want to do is have an expressive text (italic, not bold) option next to a metronome marking. As in… Steady (q=72). I want to be able to still use something like Tempo I but most of time, I’ll have a tempo that includes expressive text. I can’t seem to figure out how to do this with the Immediate vs Gradual, etc. Any ideas?

I might be wrong, but I think the only way is to use shift-opt-X system text for the Steady part and hide the tempo text. Would be nice if tempo supported character styles and/or Markdown.

Jesper