Re: "Slash" in figured bass
Am 17.08.23 um 13:05 schrieb Jean Abou Samra: Le jeudi 17 août 2023 à 12:28 +0200, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit : (The even friendlier syntax variant would require changing the lexer/parser, I think.) Why don't you just do <"/"> ? Two reasons: - I wasn't aware that figures support " " without a \markup - To me, <_/> and in particular feel closer to having semantic input. But thanks, in particular for the nice design using \beam! :-) Lukas
Re: "Slash" in figured bass
The slash is pronounced the best of several possibilites by C. Ph. E. Bach [...] Thanks. Please open an issue for SMuFL at https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues so that this slash symbol gets added to the figured bass glyphs. https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/279
Re: "Slash" in figured bass
>> In particular, there is no fitting glyph in the SMuFL specification >> (AFAICS). Consequently, a simple `\markup` solution is probably >> the way to go. > > The slash is pronounced the best of several possibilites by > C. Ph. E. Bach [...] Thanks. Please open an issue for SMuFL at https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues so that this slash symbol gets added to the figured bass glyphs. Werner
Re: "Slash" in figured bass
Le jeudi 17 août 2023 à 12:28 +0200, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit :
> (The even friendlier syntax variant would require changing the
> lexer/parser, I think.)
Why don't you just do
<"/">
?
Obviously, you can customize it with
\version "2.25.7"
slashMarkup =
\markup
\beam #0.5 #2.0 #0.3
\layout {
\override Score.BassFigure.stencil =
#(grob-transformer
'stencil
(lambda (grob orig)
(if (equal? "/" (ly:grob-property grob 'text))
(grob-interpret-markup grob slashMarkup)
orig)))
}
<<
\new FiguredBass \figuremode {
<"/"> <6> <"/"> <6>
}
\new Staff \with { \clef bass } {
f4 e d c
}
>>
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Re: "Slash" in figured bass
> From Förster's book: > https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb10527178?page=64 ex. 141 > I also attach an example from his "Practische Beyspiele", in which a > slightly different layout is being used in which the slash and the > figure are put separately over their respective notes. > > Of course it wouldn't be hard to cook up a solution (using \markup > in figures) for both styles, but I'd like to do it "the right way": > Do we already have a suitable slash symbol? If not, how should it be > designed? Has anybody of you already used this symbol? I haven't seen this before, and I believe this is an ad-hoc invention of Förster for pedagogical purposes. In particular, there is no fitting glyph in the SMuFL specification (AFAICS). Consequently, a simple `\markup` solution is probably the way to go. Werner
"Slash" in figured bass
Folks (& especially: Dear Werner), in his "Anleitung zum Generalbasse" (and the accompanying "Practische Beyspiele") from the early 1800s, E. A. Förster uses a "slash" symbol in figured bass to denote a chord that is being described relative not to the current but to the next bass note. From Förster's book: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb10527178?page=64 ex. 141 I also attach an example from his "Practische Beyspiele", in which a slightly different layout is being used in which the slash and the figure are put separately over their respective notes. Of course it wouldn't be hard to cook up a solution (using \markup in figures) for both styles, but I'd like to do it "the right way": Do we already have a suitable slash symbol? If not, how should it be designed? Has anybody of you already used this symbol? Lukas PS. Let me take this opportunity to say huge thanks again to Werner for his massive recent improvements in figured bass: With the new proper glyphs for slashed and plussed figures LilyPond can finally be used for scientifically accurate figured bass engraving.
