Re: vertical arrow

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Orm Finnendahl escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to produce a vertical arrow with arbitrary length at a
> specified horizontal position above the staff, preferrably with a
> definable dashed line. I got the arrowhead with the following markup
> command but don't get the line of the arrow:
> 
> ^\markup{\arrow-head #1 #-1 ##t}
> 
> Is that somewhere documented? I know that I can get it done with
> inline postscript but I'm looking for a generic solution in lilypond.

You'd have to add a \draw-line markup command (see the manual on
instructions on define-markup-command). 

See slashed-digit markup command for an example of creating a Stencil 
that draws a line. 

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