Re: Balloon engraver and annotations

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-09-17 7:17 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> I just want an annotation to a note with a line pointing to it.
> Thinking to use the balloon engraver, the example from the NR draws an
> ugly line next to the note, presumably a degenerate box:
>
> \new Voice \with { \consists "Balloon_engraver" }
> {
>   d'4
>   \balloonGrobText #'Stem #'(3 . 4) \markup { "I'm a Stem" }
>   d'4
> }
>
> How can the box be removed? Or more to the point, how can I do an
> annotation like that, not a footnote callout?

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\new Voice \with { \consists "Balloon_engraver" }
{
  d'4
  \once \override BalloonTextItem.annotation-balloon = ##f
  \balloonGrobText #'Stem #'(3 . 4) \markup { "I'm a Stem" }
  d'4
}
%%%%

-- Aaron Hill