Re: Fingering position

[Walter Hofmeister]

On 8/26/04 7:34 PM, "David Raleigh Arnold" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:58 am, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>> Lilypond 2.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.4
>> 
>> I am preparing some guitar instructional material and would like to
>> specify both left hand(numbers) and right hand(letters) fingerings. I
>> would like to have the left hand finger numbers close to the note
>> heads and to the left and the right hand finger letters above the
>> note head. So far I have used the syntax: c4-1^\markup { \italic { m
>> } } for each note. This works except that no matter what I do it
>> always positions everything above the note head. I have tried the
>> example for setting this from the user manual: \set
>> fingeringOrientations = #'(left) (in the manual the example was
>> #'(right)), and I have tried the tweak: \override Voice.Fingering
>> #'self-alignment-X = #-1 as well. Both seem to do nothing. Any ideas.
> 
> You need to finger the note as the contents of a one-note chord.  If you
> put <> around the note and fingering it will work, I hope.  if not, then
> have the number within the brackets, since it does not go to the default
> position, and the letter outside.  If that doesn't work, try making the
> note a chord with a unison that overwrites itself and finger each of the
> notes.  That last should not work, but might.  DaveA
Thanks David. Yes putting the <> around the note worked. I discovered that
this afternoon and was planning on writing to the list to report this. It
would be very handy if this could be accomplished by just specifying that
the numbers should go there by the fingeringOrientations statement. Having
to specify the <> brackets for each note is a bit cumbersome. Thanks for
your response.

Walter