Re: Explicit fingering direction (^3) has no effect if Fingering #'direction is set

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Sunday, 4. September 2011, 08:50:47 schrieb -Eluze:
>> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
>> > If the Fingering grob has an explicit direction set, it is NOT possible
>> > to
>> > 
>> > override it with an explicit direction in the input:
>> >     \override Fingering #'direction = #DOWN
>> >     c'4-3 c'4^3 c'4_3 c'4-3 |
>> 
>> using
>> 
>> \set fingeringOrientations = #'(…)
>> 
>> to set directions you can override its behavior ad hoc (with _ or ^)!
>
> Unfortunately, \voiceOne sets the 'direction, so inside \voiceOne you CANNOT 
> override the behaviour with ^ or _. That's how I found that problem.

I am not sure I'd call it a problem.  A common use of \voiceOne is when
you are putting several voice parts (which might be typeset separately
elsewhere) together into one system.  When you put them into one system,
you need to make them recognizable.  Any directional overrides that
would make typesetting nicer in the case of individual voices would be
confusing in the combination.  Granted, when combining voices like that,
fingerings should just be gone altogether, but at least for beams and
flags, I'd want to have overrides to go over the specified directions in
the voice.

-- 
David Kastrup