You could actually take Laura's original example to produce such a thing. Here's a slightly modified version:
\version "2.2"
mybassline = \notes {
\time 3/4
\clef bass
\key a \minor
a,2 <<a4\figures { <6> }>> |
<<gis2. \figures { <7>4 <6> }>> |
<<e2.\figures { <_+> }>> |
<<a,2\figures { <4 5>4 <3> }>> <<c4\figures { <6> }>> |
d2 <<b,4\figures { <5 6> }>> |
c2 r4 |
}\score{
<<
\context Voice \mybassline
\context FiguredBass \mybassline
>>
}You have to live with a couple of warnings in the output, but otherwise it works excellently.
/Mats
Carl Sorensen wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 21:59, Laura Conrad wrote:
But it's not whether the verb in the explanation should be eats or responds to that I'm talking about, it's whether the object of the verb should be "note-requests and rest-requests" as it was in the 1.6 "stuff", or "figured bass requests and rest-requests" as it is now, and as you're proposing to leave. If you don't make it clear that the Figured Bass context can contain notes, it makes it very difficult for anyone to figure out that it can be written by putting the figures on an existing bass line. Neither the example in the manual nor the regression test contains a single note without a figure on it, so it's not possible to deduce from them directly how write a typical score, where many or often most of the notes don't have figures on them.
I assume that what you'd really like to have available is a syntax that works like:
mybassline = {dis\figuremode{< 6 >}4 c d\figuremode{< 6 >} ais} << \context Voice {\clef bass \mybassline} \context FiguredBass \mybassline
So that you can pass the exact same music expression to the clef, which prints the notes, and to the FiguredBass, which prints the figures.
If such a syntax in fact works, the manual doesn't make it clear. Does it work?
I know almost nothing about figured bass. You refer to scores that have most notes without figures. What about figures without notes? The figured bass example in the manual has 4 quarter notes and a quarter- note figure followed by 2 eighth-note figures followed by 2 quarter-note figures. I don't see how the structure above could produce more figures than there are notes (I guess you could make simultaneous music with a quarter note and two eighth-note skips, each of which has a figure attached).
Is this even close to what you're after, to have available in the code if it's not, and have documented if it is?
It does seem to me that the relationship between the FiguredBass context and the bass clef context is a lot like the relationship between the ChordNames context and the FretDiagrams context, i.e., you certainly want to be able to pass the same music expression to both contexts, and have each context do the right thing.
Carl Sorensen
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