Re: figured bass / latex lilypond-book

[damianlegassick]

Thanks Karl

\includegraphics seems to be the simplest and most flexible option for now 
(especially with that included preamble)

Damian
> On 27 Nov 2017, at 09:49, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> 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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