Re: Vertical clash of contents

[Simon Albrecht]

On 19.07.2016 11:17, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > > I would really like all the buttons / fingers to be aligned
> > > vertically, otherwise it looks horrible (I can post the example
> > > again). But if someone can show me how to tweak the fingerings
> > > properly to satisfy my needs, I'll gladly use those instead.
> > I don't think this will work according to your desires, namely providing
> > a semi-independently readable rendering of the button sequences.
> > "\\-" = #(define-event-function (m) (markup?)
> > #{ \tweak text \markup \normal-text #m -1 #})
> > \relative c' { <f\-"2.B4" a\-"3.B5" c\-"4.B6"> <f\-"2.B4" f'\-"5.B7"> }
> Thank you very much for the snippet and for teaching me a new
> technique. This is in fact exactly the kind of input I would prefer to
> make (at least until I find a way to translate between buttons and
> pitches automatically).
>
> But from what I understand one would have to extend lilypond's
> functionality to vertically align that text.

Namely one would have to create a FingeringLineSpanner in analogy to 
DynamicLineSpanner.

Best, Simon