Re: how to engrave arrow over notehead?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Fairchild wrote:
> Bodo -
>
> Don't know why it doesn't work for you.

Since the most significant change to LilyPond between versions 2.4 and
2.6 was the handling of fonts. Version 2.6 (and 2.7) doesn't use LaTeX
as an intermediate step anymore.

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

> Maybe if you post the error message file, someone will help.
>
>                            - Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bodo [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:10 PM
> To: 'Fairchild'
> Subject: AW: how to engrave arrow over notehead?
>
>
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Thanks for this. Unfortunately it doesn't generate a .pdf for me. I'm
> running lilypond 2.7.3 on windows. I also tried the cygwin version, but that
> is too old to run this file. Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
>  Bodo
>
>
> address@hidden
>  
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Fairchild [mailto:address@hidden
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 19:44
> > An: 'Bodo'
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Betreff: RE: how to engrave arrow over notehead?
> >
> > Tucano -
> >
> > Here is a way using \markup.  Is the arrow OK?
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> > \version "2.4.6"
> > \paper { raggedright = ##t }
> > pOn = \override TextScript #'font-name = #"msam10"
> > pOff = \revert TextScript #'font-name
> > up = \markup { \hspace #-0.35 \char #24 \hspace #-2 \char #22 } dp = 
> > \markup { \hspace #-0.35 \char #25 \hspace #-2 \char #23 } {\relative 
> > c'' { \pOn c_\up d^\up e_\dp f^\dp \pOff c1_\markup { " A B C D " } } 
> > }
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> >                                       - Bruce
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden
> > On Behalf Of
> > Fairchild
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:42 AM
> > To: 'Han-Wen Nienhuys'; 'Bodo'
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: RE: how to engrave arrow over notehead?
> >
> >
> > Tucano -
> >
> > If Han-Wen's suggestion doesn't do what you want, send a
> > graphic.  I'd like
> > to see if PostScript code will do it.
> >
> >                    - Bruce
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden
> > On Behalf Of
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:53 AM
> > To: Bodo
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: how to engrave arrow over notehead?
> >
> >
> > Bodo wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Thanks for this awesome program. I'm new to this, so excuse
> >
> > me if this
> >
> > > is obvious, but extensive search of the docs and mailing
> >
> > list has not
> >
> > > yet come up with anything, so:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to engrave little up- or downwards pointing arrows over 
> > > noteheads. The reason for this is to indicate tones on the harmonic 
> > > scale
> > > (overtones) that cannot be directly mapped onto tones in equal
> >
> > temperament.
> >
> > > So if the tone is close to the tempered tone, but a little higher,
> > > there should be a little arrow pointing upwards over the notehead. 
> > > Conversely,
> >
> > if
> >
> > > the tone is slightly lower than the equal-tempered tone, the arrow
> > > over
> >
> > the
> >
> > > notehead should point downwards.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if there is a standard name for this notation,
> >
> > but it has
> >
> > > already been used in the Overtone literature. Can this be done in
> > > Lilypond? If not, how hard would it be to add a new engraver for a 
> > > little arrow?
> > >
> > > As a workaround, I could try to put text over the notehead
> >
> > and find a
> >
> > > font that contains arrows, but maybe there is a better way?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I could add this as a sponsored feature. However, I suspect you can
> > already typeset this, you just have to find the Unicode entry for 
> > arrow-up, and use that , eg.
> >
> >
> >   arrowUp = #(ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x2347)
> >   c4^\arrowUp
> >
> > where 2347 is the codepoint for arrow up.
> >
> > --
> >  Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
> >
> >
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