Thank you very much! I also want to 1) have the figures above the staff and
2) have the alterations to the right. I had been achieving this by using
"\override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP" and
"\set Staff.figuredBassAlterationDirection = #RIGHT"; I managed to get the
second one using this code:
{
\clef bass << { c2 }
\new FiguredBass { \figuremode {\set
figuredBassAlterationDirection = #RIGHT
<7>2 <6-> }}
>>
}
, however, I don't know how to have the figures above the staff now. I
looked at the list of parameters I can set for the figured bass engraver,
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/figured_005fbass_005fengraver
, and the position of alterations is there, but the position of the figures
itself relative to the staff is not. I read a few pages regarding the
engraving of figured bass, e.g.
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/figuredbass ,
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/bassfigurealignmentpositioning
, and
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/figured_005fbass_005fposition_005fengraver
, but somehow I can't find the information. Could you give me some pointers
as to how I should search the documentation for the information I'm looking
for? I entered "BassFigureAlignmentPositioning" in the internals search
index, thinking that my mistake was that it was a parameter I was trying to
override in a Staff context, which now does nothing, while probably
reference to some other context was needed, but I was unable to find the
proper name. I eventually thought that using 'FiguredBass' instead of
'Staff' could work:
{
\clef bass << { c2 }
\new FiguredBass { \figuremode {\set
figuredBassAlterationDirection = #RIGHT
\override
FiguredBass.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP <7>2 <6-> }}
>>
}
but no, it does nothing. What is, then, the correct value of x for
"\override x.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP" inside an
explicitly instantiated FiguredBass?
Thank you very much again!
Best regards,
Leszek.
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 01:11, Carl Sorensen <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:57 AM Leszek Wroński <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Experts,
>>
>> if there's a c2 in the bc voice and the figures are "<7>4 <6>", the '7'
>> ends up higher than the '6':
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/f45idpgtnd1jjch/figured_bass.png
>>
>> (I'm using 2.20.)
>>
>> Is there a method of telling Lilypond to align the figures horizontally
>> in the space of, say, a measure?
>>
>
> Use a BassFigures context, instead of putting the figures in a staff. The
> notation reference shows the difference between the two methods.
>
> Had you shown us a tiny example (https://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html)
> instead of just the graphical output, I could have rewritten the example to
> show the output you want.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
