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The <arrow> element

Parent element: <technical>

arrow

The arrow element represents an arrow used for a musical technical indication. It can represent both Unicode and SMuFL arrows. The presence of an arrowhead element indicates that only the arrowhead is displayed, not the arrow stem. The smufl attribute distinguishes different SMuFL glyphs that have an arrow appearance such as arrowBlackUp, guitarStrumUp, or handbellsSwingUp. The specified glyph should match the descriptive representation.

Content

Exactly one of the following

Attributes

Name Type Required? Description
color color No
default-x tenths No
default-y tenths No
font-family font-family No
font-size font-size No
font-style font-style No
font-weight font-weight No
placement above-below No
relative-x tenths No
relative-y tenths No
smufl smufl-glyph-name No

Examples

This element is used in the following examples:

<arrow><arrowhead><circular-arrow>