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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Horizontal shifting of a figured bass symbol
From:       Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-07-26 10:13:40
Message-ID: 2584CBB0-5CB8-4CBE-AB3F-75ABE747A566 () gmail ! com
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On 26 Jul 2016, at 11:40 , David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > > > \new FiguredBass {
> > > > 	\figuremode { \override BassFigure #'font-size = #-2 
> > > > 		< \sh >1 < _ >1 | 
> > > > }}
> > > > > > 
> > > > }
> > > 
> > > Any reason you are using \sh here instead of _+ ?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi David,
> > Yes, I do not at all like the accidentals in figured bass displayed in
> > LilyPond scores (way too small in comparison to the figures) so I
> > looked for some alternative that would give me more flexibility.
> > This (\sh) and similar commands for the flat and the natural, in
> > different sizes if necessary, works much better for me.
> > Replacing \sh with _+ in the ME makes the alignment marginally better,
> > though still not good enough for me, and the small size of the
> > sharp-symbol I find unacceptable.
> 
> Well, you _are_ overriding the BassFigure font-size here.  If you don't
> do that, the size becomes more reasonable.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup

Hi David,
It is probably a matter of taste rather than of accepted practice.
Just to check your proposal I've enlarged the ME:
+++++++++++++++ 
 sh = \markup { \fontsize #-2 \sharp }
\relative c {
<<
\new Staff { \clef "bass" \time 4/2 
	
	 e1 a,4. g8 f4 g |
	 e'1 a,4. g8 f4 g |
	  e'1 a,4. g8 f4 g |
	 e'1 a,4. g8 f4 g |
}
\new FiguredBass {
	\figuremode {  
		<  \sh >1 < 6 >1 | 
		< _+ >1 < 6 >1 |
		\override BassFigure #'font-size = #-2 
		<  \sh >1 < 6 >1 | 
		< _+ >1 < 6 >1 |
}}
> > 
}
+++++++++++++++
My preference is definitely what is displayed in bar 3, although I still would like \
to be able to shift the # both a tiny bit upward and to the right. But as I wrote, I \
do not know how that can be done.

Best regards,
Robert Blackstone
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