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Contexts and engravers 362
Contexts and engravers
Section “Changing defaults” in Notation Reference
Section “Contexts and engravers” in Learning Manual
Adding a figured bass above or below the notes
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).
Choices are #UP (or #1), #CENTER (or #0) and #DOWN (or #-1).
This property can be changed as many times as you wish. Use \once \override if you don’t
want the override to apply to the whole score.
bass = {
\clef bass
g4 b, c d
e d8 c d2
}
continuo = \figuremode {
4 4 4
\override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP
%\bassFigureStaffAlignmentUp
< _+ >4
\set Staff.useBassFigureExtenders = ##t
\override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #DOWN
%\bassFigureStaffAlignmentDown
4. 8 4
}
\score {
>
}
6 6
5
Adding an extra staff at a line break
4
When adding a new staff at a line break, some extra space is unfortunately added at the end of
the line before the break (to fit in a key signature change, which will never be printed anyway).
The workaround is to add a setting of Staff.explicitKeySignatureVisibility as is shown
in the example.
\score {
\new StaffGroup \relative c'' {
\new Staff
\key f \major
c1 c^"Unwanted extra space" \break