Re: Moving guitar fingering orientations

[Trevor Daniels]

Nick

d_3 puts fingering below the staff, d^3 above the staff and d-3 leaves 
LilyPond to choose.

The section in the manual which you mention says "Fingering instructions may 
be manually placed above or below the staff, see Direction and placement" 
and that section tells you how.

The \fingeringOrientations command is specifically for chords, that's why it 
only works for them.  This is perhaps not made crystal clear in the manual, 
although the heading of the snippet which describes the command is 
"Controlling the placement of chord fingerings".

Now you know, could you suggest how the manual wording might be changed to 
prevent others having the same difficulty?

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Payne" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: RE: Moving guitar fingering orientations


> Thanks, that fixes it. But according to the documentation, the single note
> chordal construction is only needed for string indications, not for
> fingering
> (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inside-the-staff#
> Fingering-instructions). So it looks like you can show fingering without
> making every fingered note a chord, but if you want the fingering to 
> display
> anywhere except the default location, then it has to have < > around each
> fingered note.
>
> Nick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James E. Bailey [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Sunday, 12 October 2008 16:01
> > To: Nick Payne
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Moving guitar fingering orientations
> >
> > I don't know too much about fingerings, but did you try putting each
> > note inside a chord?
> >
> > On 12.10.2008, at 05:50, Nick Payne wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to get my fingering indications below the noteheads using
> > > \set
> > > fingeringOrientations = #'(down), but they remain resolutely above
> > > the beam.
> > > I also tried (left) and (right) with no change either. My two bar
> > > test input
> > > and output are attached. Can anyone tell me why this isn't working?
> > > I'm
> > > using 2.11.61 on WinXP.
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