Re: Does \balloonText only work inside chords?

[Urs Liska]

Am 18.06.2018 um 14:17 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > ...
> >
> >      ...
> >   243: 13  [ly:book-process #<Book> #< Output_def> #< Output_def> "unknown"]
> > In unknown file:
> >     ?: 14* [# #]
> >     ?: 15* [# # #]
> >     ?: 16* [# # # #]
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure symbol->string:
> > ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting symbol): ()
> > Exited with return code 1.
> >
> > Any idea what is wrong here?
> The engravers do things differently.  You have to adapt more than just
> the Scheme code.
>
> > And would it be useful to turn my function in a proposal?
> Not independently of the C++ code I should think.

OK, I see. That basically rules out that I'll be looking into it.

> > It does seem to work like footnotes, and while the chord issue isn't
> > sorted out I think this is at a completely different location and
> > independent of such a change.
> I have not looked at the details for years but this sounds optimistic.
> I think that some more C++ and Scheme work is required, and then loads
> of convert-ly and documentation rewrite work.  It does help that the
> documentation currently is terrible, so it's comparatively easy to raise
> the bar from where it is.

OK. So that means the current state is that \ballonText can only be 
applied to noteheads within chords. \balloonGrobText can not be made to 
work as post-event but has to be placed before the to-be-annotated music.

So I think I'll at least know enough to create a workaround ...