Thank you!
2.24 says "typically within chords" at
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/outside-the-staff.html#balloon-help,
which I interpreted literally. It is changed to "only within chords" in 2.25,
so I will not misread it again.
Kind regards,
Helen
On Sunday, 5 April 2026, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > This should make a balloon text, [...]
>
> There is no bug. As the documentation says, `\balloonText` only works
> within chords. If you replace
>
> ```
> hh1-\balloonText #'(1 . 1) \markup { "I'm a note head" }
> ```
>
> with a single-note chord
>
> ```
> <hh-\balloonText #'(1 . 1) \markup { "I'm a note head" } >1
> ```
>
> you get the desired result.
>
>
> Werner
>
