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#### 8.5.1 Balloon help

Elements of notation can be marked and named with the help of a square balloon. The primary purpose of this feature is to explain notation.

The following example demonstrates its use.

>          \new Voice \with { \consists "Balloon_engraver" }
>          {
>            \balloonGrobText #'Stem #'(3 . 4) \markup { "I'm a Stem" }
>            <c-\balloonText #'(-2 . -2) \markup { Hello }  >8
>          }

There are two music functions, `balloonText` and `balloonGrobText`. The latter takes the name of the grob to adorn, while the former may be used as an articulation on a note. The other arguments are the offset and the text of the label.

##### See also

Program reference: text-balloon-interface.

Examples: `input/regression/balloon.ly`.

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