Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of trouble fingering a chorale-like work for piano. The upper staff has mostly two voices, and it looks best if I finger them both above the stave. My first approach was to use \override Fingering #'direction = #UP for the second voice, but then the fingerings collide with note heads/stems in the first voice. (See fingfing.ly/.png below)
I had a look on this list and the manual and I see that some people are using \tweak #'extra-offset to do this sort of thing, but that seems like way too much work, I have to manually position everything. So I had the idea of attaching both fingerings to the topmost voice (fingfing2) using something like "a'-\markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) \finger \column { 5 2 }}". That seems to take care of the positioning quite nicely for me. I'm happy with this solution, but it's still cumbersome to enter. So I've got two questions: 1. Can someone help me write a macro/function to make this simpler? It would be nice to be able to write something like a^\multiFinger { 2 3 }, for example. I'm sure this is possible, but I've spent a few hours on it and I'm not really getting far. 2. Or, alternatively, has someone got a better solution? Thanks, Gerard %---- fingfing.ly - override fingering direction in second voice ----- \include "english.ly" rhOne = \relative c'' { \partial 4 d4 | cs^4 b8 cs a4 a'^5 } rhTwo = \relative c'' { s4 a2^2 e4 cs'^2 | } \new Staff << \key a \major \numericTimeSignature \time 4/4 \clef treble \new Voice { \voiceOne \rhOne } \new Voice { \voiceTwo \override Fingering #'direction = #UP \rhTwo } >> %---- fingfing2.ly - attach fingering to topmost voice \include "english.ly" rhOne = \relative c'' { \partial 4 d4 | cs-\markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) \finger \column { 4 2 }} b8 cs a4 a'-\markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 1.5) \finger \column { 5 2 }} | } rhTwo = \relative c'' { s4 a2 e4 cs' | } \new Staff << \key a \major \numericTimeSignature \time 4/4 \clef treble \new Voice { \voiceOne \rhOne } \new Voice { \voiceTwo \rhTwo } >>
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