@cindex decorating text
@cindex framing text
-Some markup commands allow to decorate text elements
+Some markup commands allow decoration of text elements
with graphics, as demonstrated in the following example.
@lilypond[quote,verbatim]
@cindex padding around text
@cindex text padding
-Some commands may require to increase the padding around
-the text: this is achieved with some specific commands
+Some commands may require an increase in the padding around
+the text; this is achieved with some specific commands
exhaustively described in @ref{Align}.
@lilypond[quote,verbatim]
Other graphic elements or symbols may be printed
without requiring any text. As with any markup
-expression, such objects can be combined together:
+expression, such objects can be combined.
@lilypond[quote,verbatim]
\markup {