2013/10/12 David Kastrup
> Probably. Since the example explicitly starts with a redundant
> \balloonLengthOff, it would appear that either this was not always the
> default, or that the documentation writer was confused.
>
added https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3608
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Federico Bruni writes:
> Ballon Help
>
> Balloon text normally influences note spacing, but this can be altered:
> \new Voice \with { \consists "Balloon_engraver" }
> {
> \balloonLengthOff
> \balloonGrobText #'Stem #'(3 . 4) \markup { "I'm a Stem" }
> a8
> \balloonGrobText #'Rest #'(-4 .
Ballon Help
Balloon text normally influences note spacing, but this can be altered:
\new Voice \with { \consists "Balloon_engraver" }
{
\balloonLengthOff
\balloonGrobText #'Stem #'(3 . 4) \markup { "I'm a Stem" }
a8
\balloonGrobText #'Rest #'(-4 . -4) \markup { "I'm a rest" }
r
\balloo