Re: Arrows in markup text

[Mats Bengtsson]

Frédéric Chiasson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using : LilyPond 2.11.9 on Mac OS X.4.8
>
> I would like to put a markup text as : (left arrow) (quarter note) = 
> (dotted quarter note) (right arrow), for making Carter-like "rythmic 
> modulations".
>
> I don't know how to put arrows. Putting the arrow from the Mac text 
> character set doesn't work.
I hope you made sure to save the file using UTF-8 character encoding.
Then it should certainly be possible to use arrows from the text fonts.
> I looked at the "arrow-head" markup command, but I need a full arrow 
> and I don't know which values the variables "axis" and "direction" can 
> take (what are the constant values' syntax).
Try #X as the value of axis for a horizontal arrow and direction #LEFT 
or #RIGHT.

  /Mats