David, Kieren,
thanks a lot for your snippets! For didactical purposes I need centered, explanatory text over a time signature. > Here's a snippet showing how balloon text might be used. 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, \new Staff { \tweak stencil #(grob-transformer 'stencil (lambda (grob default) (grob-interpret-markup grob #{ \markup \column { \stencil #default \vspace #-2.5 \center-align "This is a long, centered text" } #}))) \time 4/4 c'1 } the staff line gets enlarged horizontally to the left. Using the baloon stuff, the text properly sticks out. Werner
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