Re: extenders in figured bass without a figure in front

[Mats Bengtsson]

> > That was a quick answer but sadly not to my question.
> > I did not intend to keep the markup-ting in the bass-notes because it is
> > clearly something which belongs to the B.c player. Already for part of the
> > violoncello it would be quite distracting! My markup construction was just a
> > makeshift prop because I had to get the thing out for the cembalo where I
> > marked the corresponding pieces with a black felttip to make it work. But I
> > thought I might as well ask for the next time. I would really like to have
> > an extenderline belonging to the figured bass just without to have to write
> > a starting figure.
> > (And besides I've not found how to make text-spanner thing work because I've
> > got no text.)
> > Chris
> Hi,
>
> Is this what you are looking for?
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=607
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier

That's a clumsy solution! I have always solved this problem using an 
underscore as the figure, which means a vertical space, i.e. an 
invisible figure, so only the extender line is shown:

fb = \figuremode {
  \bassFigureExtendersOn
  s4 <_> <_> <_> |
}

music = \relative c' {
  c4 c b c |
}

\new Score {
    \new Staff <<
      \new Voice = "FiguredBass" { \fb }
      \new Voice = "Music" { \clef "bass" \music }
>>
}

    /Mats