Re: Vertical alignment of Figured Bass?

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:01:09 +0100, Rutger a dit : 

 > OK, I answer my own question.

 > I use Lily 1.8 for this, sorry for not mentioning

 > (1) set alignment to top:
 >     \property FiguredBass . BassFigure \set #'self-alignment-Y = #'1
 > (2) improve text size:
 >     \property FiguredBass . BassFigure \set #'font-relative-size = #'-2
 > (3) tweak default offset:
 >     \property FiguredBass . BassFigure \set #'extra-offset = #'( 0 . 6 )
 > (4) tweak individual offsets:
 >     \property FiguredBass . BassFigure \override #'extra-offset = #'( 0 . -2 
 > )
 >     and
 >     \property FiguredBass . BassFigure \revert #'extra-offset

 > Enclose the default from 1.8 in a (only slightly contrived) example,
 > and the tweaked according to the above.

 > Thanks,

 > Rutger

I would not recommend it for real use, as it was just a hack aiming at
making myself astonished by LilyPond's extensibility, but there you
may find a way to automatically have all figures just below the
(eventual) note (with lily 2.0, though):

http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/schemingly/bass-figure.html

(example pictures are shown)

nicolas