Thank you very much! The 'alignAboveContext' bit did the trick!
Best regards,
Leszek.
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 12:06, Leo Correia de Verdier <
leo.correia.de.verd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something like:
>
> \version "2.20.0"
> <<
> \new Staff = "basso" {
> \clef bass c1 }
> \new FiguredBass \with { alignAboveContext = "basso" }
> \figuremode {
> <7>2 <6-> }
> >>
>
>
> > 2 sep. 2020 kl. 11:25 skrev Leszek Wroński <elw...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Dear Experts,
> >
> > I would like to have the figures in my figured bass to be engraved above
> the staff. This piece of documentation:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/contexts-and-engravers
> says the following:
> >
> > "When writing a figured bass, you can place the figures above or below
> the bass notes, by defining the BassFigureAlignmentPositioning.direction
> property (exclusively in a Staff context)."
> >
> > My problem is that I am not in a Staff context. Based on a previous
> suggestion by Carl Sorensen about horizontal alignment of figures (thank
> you very much again!) I am now using an explicitly instantiated FiguredBass:
> >
> > {
> > \clef bass << { c2 }
> > \new FiguredBass { \figuremode <7>2 <6-> }}
>
> > >>
> > }
> >
> > What should I do to position the figures above the staff? Thank you very
> much in advance!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Leszek Wroński.
>
>
