Re: In figured bass, _ direction indicator does not work (^ and - work)

[Ralph Palmer]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer
<address@hidden>wrote:

> In figured bass, attaching a text script to a skip (because one has to mark
> tasto solo parts with "t.s.") works, but it is not possible to use the _
> direction indicator to print it below the staff. ^ and - work fine. Simple
> test case attached.
>
> The problem happens in 2.12 as well as in 2.13.
>
> AFAICS, the problem is that in figured bass, _ is redefined in the parser
> to
> mean an empty figure, so the parser does not detect it as a direction
> modifier, even if it is used outside of a bass figure, i.e. not inside
> <...>.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
> --
>

Greetings, Reinhold -

This has been added as issue 1594
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1594

Ralph