Re: A contribution (was Re: snippet to properly align dynamics with expressive text)

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 16:58 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> On 08.07.2017 15:49, Richard Shann wrote:
> > I was intrigued by this, as I have a patch to the figured bass formatter
> > that has been hanging around because the route to making contributions
> > that I knew about involved a virtual machine which I can't get working
> > on my current system.
> 
> The method Urs named is possible with openLilyLib, but not with the 
> LilyPond source.  That
> means you would have to get a VM to work, or install a Unix system in 
> parallel – both a lot of
> effort for one small patch obviously.  Or you just e-mail your patch to 
> the devel list and ask for
> someone to shepherd it through the review process and into the code base 
> for you, which is done
> from time to time.
Thanks - here is such a small patch then. It fixes the centering of
isolated accidentals and digits on whole notes which is currently too
far to the left.
Here is a snippet that illustrates the problem.
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<<
   {
    c''1 c'' c'' c''
    c''4 c'' c'' c''

  }
  \new FiguredBass {
    \figuremode {
      <_+>1 <_-> <3> <3+>
      <_+>4 <_-> <3> <3+>
    }
  }
>>
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Richard

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