Please read the section "How LilyPond files work" in the manual.
There you will learn that your example below is equivalent to
\score{
\new Voice{ ... }
}
\score{
\new FiguredBass \figuremode { ... }
}
In other words, you have typeset two separate scores, one
with the notes and one with the fi
I took the following example from the documentation, but added
the tailing g's. No matter how many notes are cramed into the
line, the figures remain in the same place. Aren't the figures
supposed to track with the notes similar to lyrics?
Alan
\version "2.10.17"
\new Voice {
\clef bass dis4 c
