Re: AW: how to engrave arrow over notehead?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Bodo wrote:
> > As an alternative, find out how to enter the desired arrow 
> > symbol in your text editor (one solution is to lookup the 
> > Unicode representation for different kinds of arrows at
> > http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html)
> > Then, you can simply enter the symbol as a text script.
> >
> >    /Mats 
>
>
>
> Hi Mats,
>
> Thanks, this works.
> I'm using unicode symbol 2191 for the up arrow, and 2193 for the down arrow.
> Now how can I get the symbol to be displayed directly above the notehead?
> Using something like c_"arrow" or c^"arrow" displays the symbol at the
> bottom or top of the line, but I want it closer to the notehead.
> Is this possible?

Of course it's possible, it's LilyPond, right?

Please read the section "9.2 The \override command" of the manual.

   /Mats