Re: Accidental-only in figured bass

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 03.07.2016 um 12:54 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I have the impression I'm missing something stupid, but I'm unable to
>>> figure out (pun intended) how to print something like
>>>
>>>  7
>>>  #
>>>
>>> instead of
>>>
>>>  7
>>> #3
>>>
>>> in figuremode.
>>>
>>> How can I achieve that?
>> Anything wrong with \figures { < 7 _+ > } here?
>
> No, except that it isn't explicitly mentioned on
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/figured-bass (you
> can only extract it from two general examples while it's not listed on
> the list of provided functions).

   Vertical spaces and brackets can be included in figures:

     \figures {
       <[12 _!] 8 [6  4]>
     }
     [image src="lilypond/3a/lily-426e6f45.png" alt="[image of music]" 
text="image of music"]

> I've added a patch for this:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4915/

That contradicts "Vertical spaces [...] can be included in figures."
since you state "Accidentals (including naturals) can be added to
figures or printed on their own:" as if vertical space wasn't part of
figures.

-- 
David Kastrup