David Chan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can lilypond (1.2 / 1.3) do figured bass notation? If not, would it be
> hard to implement?
As far as I know figured bass is not yet supported by lilypond (as is
the case with the MusiXTeX preprocessor pmx). In my musical terms
glossary, part of the lilypond docs, I managed to emulate bass figures
(item thorough bass) using lyrics lines having their vertical distance
adjusted by the Lyrics.minVerticalAlign property. Have a look at the
mudela-book source of the glossary.
> This is a (level) row of numbers/accidentals which go
> under a bass-line staff and tell a keyboard player what chords to use when
> improvising around the bass line. The numbers are usually the same font
> and size as numbers for fingerings, and occur in vertical groupings of 1,
> 2, 3 or (occasionally) 4 numbers. E.g.:
>
> -------------------|------------------------------------
> -------------------|------------------------------------
> ----------B-L-A-H--|------------------------------------
> -------------------|------------------------------------
> -------------------|------------------------------------
>
> 6 9 8 5 6 (6) 7 ...
> 2 #
>
> I can send a scan if that would be less unclear :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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