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
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