Arrows to show gradual change

Dorico
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Hello,

I was wondering if there is any way to create arrows to show gradual change from one effect to another, for instance if I wanted a cellist to move gradually from sul pont. to sul tasto and notated it like such over a staff:
sul pont. ----------------------> sul tasto.

Am I just missing where this is an option? Or has it not been implemented yet? If not, it shouldn’t be harder than just creating the same principals as a crescendo or diminuendo except changing it to an arrow instead.

Thanks!

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I do not think that kind of lines have been implemented yet. If it were, you could probably add the arrows in the properties panel…

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I have been faking these by using a straight line (shift X for text entry, then underscore character); then I make another text box with the unicode arrow symbol:

https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/tables/arrows-and-arrowheads.html

It’s a hack but it works OK.

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Hi Stephen, thanks for the great hack idea. I’ll be using that!

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Just found another variant on Stephen’s unicode method. If you do everything in the one text box, you can create a character style and apply it to the arrow to make it line up with the underscore. I found a baseline shift of 4.70pt and a letter spacing of 6.00pt did a pretty good job.

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There are dedicated arrow fonts you should check out as well.