Re: figured bass / latex lilypond-book

[karl]

Damian:
...
> I know how to work with figured bass in lilypond when there are
> notes, I meant to ask about how to include *just* the figure bass
> numbers in the middle of some text
...

 To do *just* the figure bass numbers with no notes, see

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/figured-bass#entering-figured-bass

  E.g. make a file (let's call it a.ly for now) with

\version "2.18"
\figures { <7! 6+ 4-> <5++> <3--> }

  and compile it and you'll get an output file with just the figered
  bass line.

  If you change it to

\version "2.18"
\include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly"
\figures { <7! 6+ 4-> <5++> <3--> }

  the output file will be cropped. It also produces files a-<number>.*
  a-systems.*; just do a \includegraphics{a-1} to put that snippet in
  your latex file (this is basically how lilypond-book does it).

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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