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.

Have you had a look at either balloon help or footnotes:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/outside-the-staff#balloon-help
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes

Nick