Hi Werner,
> I rather suggest the following
>
> ```
> F = \markup { \smaller \number ♭ }
> S = \markup { \smaller \number ♯ }
> N = \markup { \smaller \number ♮ }
>
> \new Staff {
> c'1^\markup \concat { B \F }
> c'1^\markup \concat { C \S }
> c'1^\markup \concat { D \N }
> }
> ```
>
> If you look more closely, the accidentals produced by `\number` are
> different from the ones produced by `\flat` and friends. The former
> are mainly for text markup and thus have more reasonable metric
> values, while the latter are suited mainly for non-text markup.
Very nice! Definitely superior.
Kieren.