Re: Tweaking individual BassFigures

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello everybody,
>
> it is currently not possible to tweak individual BassFigures – this:
>
> \version "2.19.80"
> \figures {
>   <\single \hide BassFigure 6 3>
> }
>
> gives a
>
> syntax error, unexpected MUSIC_FUNCTION.
>
> How fundamental are the reasons for this?

Pretty much: bass figure mode does not treat unsigneds lexically
differently.  It might be possible to do something like

  <\single\hide Bassfigure <6> 3>

in order to generate a music expression internally, but it would involve
several changes.

One is tweaking of chords by tweaking its internals instead.  I have a
change cooking for that.  The next would be unpacking chords from
function calls (and likely other Scheme expressions) when used inside of
chords.

And on top of that, this syntax is not particularly endearing with its
double wrap.

-- 
David Kastrup