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Roman numerals in figured bass; also, TEXMF and TEXMFCNF behavior
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Roman numerals in figured bass; also, TEXMF and TEXMFCNF behavior |
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Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:41:15 +0200 |
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>
> Lilypond is wonderful, and its "body plan" is just right. Thanks.
> I have two questions.
>
> 1. Lilypond has limited support for figured bass in the traditional
> form of columns of digits indicating intervals relative to the bass note.
> Today, for both pedagogical and practical reasons, it is common
> to esplicitly give, besides those numbers, a Roman numeral
> (sometimes in upper or lower case for, resepctively, major and minor)
> indicating the chord root, such as
>
> 7 6
> I V V V4
>
> This kind of figured bass, appearing below the staff, is distinct from the so
> called "chord notation" such as
>
> Fdim F7 Cmin
>
> etc. Is there a way in lilypond to notate these Roman
> numerals in the figured bass?
I added strings to figured bass so you can do
<"V4" 6>
you have to twiddle with font settings though (the number font has no
letters.)
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