Re: Issue 1029 in lilypond: \thumb should behave like other fingerings

[Frédéric Bron]

>  1. short-term fix: change "thumb" definition (avoid-slur . around
>     + add other "Fingering" properties that also exists for Script),
>     but keeping \thumb engraved by "Script_engraver".
>     Here is what I think could be fine:
>
> ("thumb"
>     . (
>        (script-stencil . (feta . ("thumb"  . "thumb")))
>        (avoid-slur . around)
>        (padding . 0.5)
>        (direction . ,UP)
>        (slur-padding . 0.2)
>        (staff-padding . 0.5)))

Let's go for that, I will prepare a patch.
Frédéric