Re: FiguredBass extenders for only part of the figure

[Carl Sorensen]

Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold <at> kainhofer.com> writes:

> 
> In Mozarts "Benedictus sit Deus" the figured bass sometimes has figures, 
> where 
> one of the numbers uses extenders over the whole measure, while the second 
> one is repeated. An scan of a hand-engraved score is attached. 
> 
> How can I do this properly with lilypond? I tried using \markup{\number 3} 
> instead of 3, but lilypond still detects the markup as equal and uses 
> extenders...
> 
> Thanks,
> Reinhold
> 

Reinhold,

It came to me on my vacation that you just need to split add some 16th note
figures.  I've done it for the first figure pair, but not the rest.

Carl


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%  \new Voice {
    \relative c' {
      a'8 a g! f
    }
%  }
  \new FiguredBass {
    \figuremode {
      \set useBassFigureExtenders = ##t

      <5 3>16 <5>16 <5 3> <5 3> <5 3>
    }
  }
>>