Réf. : Figured Bass Questions.....

[Jean-marc LEGRAND]

Hi !
I have an answer for the lines after figures. I've done this on Lily2.0 and win 
XP, with a Marais
piece for the viol.
For these lines, I used the proprety e2-"\\embeddedps{0.1 setlinewidth 2.5 9 
moveto 4 0.5 rlineto
stroke}", which draws a line from the note e. As far as I can remmeber, 0.1 is 
the thickness of the
line, 2.5 9 the start point from the note e, and 4 0.5 the end of the line. 
Note that the line is
drawn from the notes, and not from the figures. I haven't tried this trick on 
lily2.2 yet. But I'm
sure you can get it in the regression tests.

For your sharp pb, I must admit I have the same !

Bye


                                                                                
                                                                                
    
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Good Morning all,

I’ve been playing around with Lilypond for quite a while now. I’ve been
evaluating it type setting quite a variety of scores – mainly baroque works
instrumental and vocal using both ancient time signatures and notes and have
found the output to be excellent. I've even started using Linux-Fedora (a
big leap from windows) so I can use the latest versions of lilypond.

The only reservations that I have now is the figured bass. I have looked up
several questions people have about this and found a variety of different
figuring which does not seem to work well together.

My questions are these:

Proper alignment of figures eg.

    7
  #3
    2

It’s most important that the sharp on the three be on the left of the number
and not on the right so as not to confuse a sharpened 3rd resolution after
the current figures.

I have tried several markups which never quite able to match these figures
(the figured bass context is too weak to provide the complexity of some
figured bass settings)

The other question is the thin line representing a holding of the previous
part of the figured bass. ie. Some or all of the previous chord is held.

Eg.          5            ---
                7               b6         the thin line (  ---  ) indicates 
that the
5th note should be held while adding the flattened 6th  or

6       _____
5

indicating that the previous chord is to be held…. This can be held for
either for the next bass notes or a series of bass notes.

Does anyone have a full scheme/way of setting out a figured bass?

Any help in this matter would be appreciated. Are there any plans to
strengthen figured bass support? I would suggest that if there was then
lilypond would possibly be the best notation package available being able to
typeset all music. It might even rival SCORE (the mysterious notation
package that only ‘bigger’ music publishing firms can seem to get their
hands on).




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