Hi Werner, > This is the solution I will use, since David's solution doesn't really > work for me: As the attached image for this snippet shows, > the staff line gets enlarged horizontally to the left. Using the > baloon stuff, the text properly sticks out.
What about \new Staff { \tweak stencil #(grob-transformer 'stencil (lambda (grob default) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup \with-dimensions-from "a" \column { \stencil #default \vspace #-2.5 \center-align "This is a long, centered text" } #}))) \time 2/4 c'1 } Hope that helps! Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user