markup text height

[Roman V. Isaev]

When I type

d'8[( \f ^"Sostenuto" e' f' e' d' e']) |

I get somethig horrible: http://www.soprano-recorder.ru/tmp/question4.gif

Ugh. I have to enter

d'8[( \f ^\markup { " " \raise #1.5 "Sostenuto" } e' f' e' d' e']) |

but it's a lot to type the same markup syntax many times. Is there any way
to do this automagically (i.e. if the text crosses slur line, then raise
the text above slur)? Or at least do that rasing somehow less wordy, like
^^"text" gets raised by #1.0, ^^^"text" gets raised by #2.0, etc?

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 Roman V. Isaev             http://www.soprano-recorder.ru             Moscow, 
Russia