Arrowheads for lines
I have wanted to create lines with arrowheads in my music. Ideally the arrowhead could be attached to either a straight line or a curved line (slur).
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What do you want to use the arrows for?
In reply to What do you want to use the by David Bolton
There are a few situations I'd like to use arrowheads. I use MuseScore to create Schenker graphs for music analysis. Arrows are useful symbols to indicate voice leading or to highlight a connection between two pitches separated in time. I also use arrows in my own compositions to indicate aleatoric events that continue through other structural points. Or, for instance, in one of my pieces, I want to indicate for the cellist to move from sul tasto to sul pont over the course of 20".
It's very clear with an arrow: sul tasto ------------> sul pont.
I also think arrows are such standard symbols in contemporary notation that they can be adapted to many different uses.
You can see some examples of arrows in one of my pieces here: http://matthysmusic.com/pdf/evaporate.pdf
In reply to Arrowhead uses by jwmatthys
By the way, your PDF produces an error: "There was a problem reading this document (14)". It appears blank when I open it.
In reply to By the way, your PDF produces by David Bolton
Sonofa---!
I'll look into that. It works when I download it. Anyway, as I look at it, it's not a particularly good example of arrowheads anyway. Can we just let the original point stand? Arrows are useful.
In reply to darn. by jwmatthys
Yes. I wasn't trying to contradict your point, just wanted to understand it better.
Another use of arrows is to indicate that two parts split from one staff to two, or merge from two staffs to one, at the end of a system. This is done by positioning a pair of diagonal arrows at the end of the staff(s) either coming together or separating. I currently use diverging or converging lines for this, but arrows are the "standard" way of doing this and their meaning is clearer.
In reply to Arrow Heads by gavin.oddy
Yes - it would definitely be useful.
It would be a good idea to place the option in the Line Properties dialogue so you could choose hook, triangle, etc as a starting or ending option.
In reply to Yes - it would definitely be by ChurchOrganist
That would be a great idea indeed, not yet implemented as far as I can discover?
In reply to Arrow Heads by gavin.oddy
exactly! I saw it today in Carus Verlag (Handel: Israel in Egypt) very useful!
In reply to exactly! I saw it today in by SRH
They are available in the symbols palette
In reply to They are available in the by Jojo-Schmitz
not found! I mean arrows like this (or the opposite)
![IMG_6681.jpg]()
(right bottom end)
In reply to not found! I mean arrows like by SRH
I'm pretty sure.to.have seen those. The Symbols palette is pretty large., I mean the one that is part of the.master palette
In reply to I'm pretty sure.to.have seen by Jojo-Schmitz
In reply to [inline:arrows.png] by Isaac Weiss
I now found them but they are only in the Bravura font! I prefer Gonville being more compact. Can they be added in Gonville and Emmetaler as well?
In reply to I now found them but they are by SRH
On missing glyphs Gonville and Emmentaler should fall back to using Bravura glyphs. Don't they?
Anyway, using these arrows from Bravura in a score that otherwise uses Gonville or Emmentaler is also possible
But feel free to submit a feature request in the issue tracker for those glyphs to get added. One request per font please, as it most likely is different people doing them.
In reply to On missing glyphs Gonville by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you, of course one can use another font, how stupid I am!
Hello!
Is this possible yet? Cant seem to find how to do it ... I usually end up editing a 60-80% finished score made in musescore in inkscape after exporting to svg, so in musescore I add simple lines, then in inkscape I add the arrowheads...
If one could do this directly in musescore it would be great indeed!
In reply to Hello! Is this possible yet… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
It is possible, by using those arrows from the symbols palette. Open the master palette, there the symbols palette, there search for "Staff divide arrow" ("Staff d" is enough already). After having added them (to the last chord/rest of the measure) you need to manually position them though.
In reply to It is possible, by using… by Jojo-Schmitz
You mean by adding a line, then dragging an arrow from the symbol pallete, and moving it to the tip of the line? If this is so, any minor modification to the score would mess up the alignment, and making this alignment perfect takes so much time, wouldn't it be easier to have a drop list with available arrows? just as the hook i mean.
In reply to You mean by adding a line,… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
No, no line needed, just those arrows (they have a line attached already). But yes, relayout is an issue here, esp. for horizontal offset. Not for vertical offset though, here 4sp seems perfect
In reply to No, no line needed by Jojo-Schmitz
Oh! but I meant for a line, so it could be resized. So for example if there is a module to be repeated, a gradual change from sul tasto to sul pont, then resizable lines with arrowheads would be very useful.
In reply to Oh! but I meant for a line,… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
Ah ,sorry, I meant those asked for in https://musescore.org/en/node/9478#comment-376711
In reply to You mean by adding a line,… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
Press 'Z' enter 'arrow' in the search box->drag to score
In reply to Press 'Z' enter 'arrow' in… by Shoichi
that gives too many, and those wanted are not even visible on that screen
![staff divide arrow.png]( "staff divide arrow.png")
In reply to that gives too many, and… by Jojo-Schmitz
Oops, you're right, thie weren't the ones asked for here