Add arrowheads at end-beginning of diagonal lines
Hello,
I am a Finale orphan here experimenting with Musescore. I write a lot of exercises sets for very young violin students and their parents who generally don't read music very well.
So I need to write many text frames with explanations and like to have lines with arrows pointing towards the notes in the music to which these explanations refer. Often times these have to be diagonal.
I did experiment with Dorico, but the fact text frames in Dorico can't be assigned to specific bars is a deal breaker for me at the moment.
I have found several threads on this forum dating from many years back about this lines and arrows issue, but not many recent ones.
None of the hooks proposed in the Lines Properties are arrows. I tried inserting a "<" as beginning text, but it doesn't show.
I know I could print the part as pdf and add arrowed lines from a pdf editor at the end of the project, but it would be nice to be able to do it in Musescore. Especially for later editing.
I joined the Musescore file I am working on. The lines are between a text frame above the first staff and notes in the 1st staff. I also joined a pdf of a Finale produced exercises set with examples of the kind of arrowed lines I need.
Thank you for any help,
Jean
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Va le dire à thante Rhody, exercices, v2.1_Fr.mscz | 32.62 KB |
| DrillsSuzvln_1.10_v1.1.pdf | 421.03 KB |
Comments
Don't think there's any way to do it. Workaround: Just draw a line and forget about the arrowhead. *shrug*
Feel free to file a request for this on GitHub
In reply to Feel free to file a request… by Jojo-Schmitz
+1
I've always thought MuseScore's Line palette should have an arrow object with:
• an option for line thickness
• a property for line length
• a small library of arrowheads
You could use Unicode arrow characters, though that's not ideal because they are font specific, meaning that each font can render a particular arrow differently.
On MacOS you can search and access Unicode characters via Show Emojis & Symbols:
NOTE: I don't think MuseScore has an option for rotating Text objects, or any type object. Free rotation would be a good addition to the request. Sounds like you need arrows that can point in any direction ... as opposed to only pointing up, down, right, left and at diagonals like 45°.
In the meantime, to add to the suggestion by TheHutch. You can add a line from the Line palette. You can place it anywhere. Make it any length and angle. Change the thickness and color. And put a hook on the end. Not an arrow, of course, but it all might work for now.
In reply to In the meantime, to add to… by bobjp
You can use the Special Characters feature (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/entering-and-editing-text#special-c…), see the GIF below.
And once you've achieved the desired size, you can drop the symbol into a palette for later reuse. The size will be preserved, you'll just need to move the symbol to the desired location.
In reply to You can use the Special… by cadiz1
Thank you all for your feedback.
Cadiz, the gif was very useful. I had read when researching threads about the Unicode special characters, but this made me realize you access them through staff text (which I assume is how you did it in the gif)
I manage to work something which I can use changing the font from Edwin to Arial, and did save it in the Lines Palette.
I wish I could control the lenght of the line. Is it possible to drag into a Palette arrows imported as pictures in a frame within a musescore project? I could the create arrows of different lenghts and angles.
I will of course file a feature request. It would be very practical for what I do to have arrows with options for line thickness and different arrowheads to choose from.
In reply to Thank you all for your… by hypolydien
Oops.
Forgot to attch the file with the arrows