Re: arrows

[Nick Payne]

On 16/10/12 09:17, Kevin Patrick Barry wrote:
> Dear LilyPond experts,
>
> I apologise for the length of this message, and humbly ask for your
> patience. Most of my use of LilyPond is to produce examples for theory
> classes, my forthcoming dissertation, or conference papers. One
> absolutely invaluable tool for explicating music is the drawing of all
> kinds of arrows. In general I have managed so far using glissandi with
> arrowheads, which is fine in many instances, since most arrows begin
> at a note, but the need to be attached to a following note makes
> manipulating where the arrow goes rather difficult.

You could also use Scribus, which allows lilypond code to be placed in
frames and arrows drawn between frames or overlaid wherever you want.
See attached, a crop from a Scribus document I had containing lilypond
code where I quickly drew an arrow between notes in two of the frames.

Nick

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