Vertical adjustment of \markup

[Palmer, Ralph]

Greetings,

I'm running Lilypond 2.8.4.1 on WinXP SP2.

In the following snippet, I'd like to move "rit" upward. In the score
the snippet comes from, the "rit" almost collides with a c''' notehead.
I've tried \pad-markup, but Lilypond choked - tried to compile forever.
I suspect I'm formating the section incorrectly, but I can't figure out
the correct format.

snippet:
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\version "2.8.4.1"
\include "english.ly"

Music = {
        \clef treble
        \key c \major
        \time 3/4

         \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #(cons (markup #:italic
"rit" ) "")
         d''16\startTextSpan c''' e'' a'' c''' e'' |
         b''16 ds'' fs'' b'' f'' b''\stopTextSpan
}

\score {
       \Music
       }

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Thanks again for your help,

Ralph
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Ralph Palmer
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Keene State College
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