Re: Fingering not aligned in 2.17, ok in 2.16

[Nick Payne]

On 24/03/13 04:07, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Nick Payne writes:
>
> > > Do you consider this a bug?  Actually, I like the new behaviour
> > > better.  What does the literature say?
> > The great majority of commercial guitar scores I possess align the
> > fingering vertically on chords, as 2.16 does.
> Which means that there is no strict agreement?  The great majority
> have been wrong before.
>
> What about the most beautiful scores amongst your collection, what do
> they do?
I think the best look is achieved by either having the chord fingering 
aligned vertically, or having it so that it is spaced a consistent 
amount away from from the note or accidental - i.e. if fingering doesn't 
need to avoid an accidental elsewhere in the chord, it should sit where 
it would normally sit next to the notehead if the accidental wasn't 
there. The second option can be achieved in Lilypond by tweaking 
fingerings that don't need to avoid an accidental with a large negative 
script priority:

\relative f'' {
  \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
  <cis-1 a-1 e-1>4
  <cis!-1 a-1 e-\tweak script-priority #-199 -1>4
}

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