On 2025-09-01 18:07, Aleksa Jakovljevic wrote:
That works, but then (as it ever does) brings up another issue... the figures are aligned so that the top of each stack is at the same vertical position, which is obviously not desirable (leaves quite a jarring gap between them and the relevant bass notes). On the plus side I'm at least able to put up any custom formatting if I want to, so that's some progress.
Yes, when placing figured bass in its own FiguredBass context above the bass Staff, you have to change the "stacking order" from downwards to upwards, to get the desired bottom alignment. The problem is that this also reverses the vertical order of the figures, which isn't what you want. Luckily, a nice workaround can be found in the mailing list archives, see https://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg127851.html
Obviously, if you write your .ly file from scratch, you can just input the figures in the opposite order yourself, but the solution above handles the situation where you already have entered the figures and don't want to redo the work.
/Mats
