Re: How to have fingerings in bold?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Griff Miller wrote:

>   
> I now have run across two more problems:

> 1) How do I prevent Lilypond from placing the fingering higher than others for
> the tonic? I've searched the web for "fingering" together with "tonic" and
> can't find the answer.

LilyPond doesn't know what a tonic is, so that's not the issue. If you 
temporarily turn on stems again, you will quickly realize what is going
on. You have just made the stems transparent, but LilyPond will still 
take them into account when it tries to place other objects to avoid collisions.
Just add a 
     \override Stem #'direction = #DOWN   
to fix the problem.

> 2) Perhaps I am asking LP to do too much, but how do I get horizontal brackets
> to float above my fingerings (I force all fingerings to go above the note with
> "^" and I have an override in place that makes the the horizontal brackets go
> above the staff).

Add some padding to the horizontal brackets:
     \override HorizontalBracket #'padding = #1.0
The default value is 0.2.

  /Mats


> On Tue, May 29, 2007 1:41 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>   
> > It's much easier to answer these questions if you include a (small but
> > complete)
> > example that illustrates what you have done so far.
> >     
>
> Here we go:
>
> \version "2.11.22"
>
> bf = {
>  \once \override Fingering #'font-series = #'bold
> }
>
> \header {
>   title = "C Major Scale"
> }
>
> fastoneoctlow = \relative c {
>   \cadenzaOn
>   c4^2 d^0 e^1 f^2 g^0 a^1\startGroup b^3 c^4
>   b^3 a^1\stopGroup g^0 f^2 e^1 d^0 c^2
>   \cadenzaOff
>   \bar "||"
> }
>
> \score {
>   {
>     \new Staff {
>       \clef bass
>       \fastoneoctlow
>     }
>   }
>   \layout {
>
>     indent = 0.0\cm
>     \context {
>       \Staff \consists "Horizontal_bracket_engraver"
>       \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
>       \override Stem #'transparent = ##t
>       \override HorizontalBracket #'bracket-flare = #'(0.0 . 0.0)
>       \override HorizontalBracket #'direction = #UP
>       \override Fingering #'font-encoding = #'latin1
>       \override Fingering #'font-size = #-2
>     }
>   }
> }
>
>
>   

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