Re: Feature Request: Support for fingering position override on single polyphonic notes

[David Kastrup]

Javier Ruiz-Alma <address@hidden> writes:

> Lilypond ignores fingering position command for single notes on polyphonic
> music, while allowing the desired behaviour when chord notation is used.
> Report from 2004:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-08/msg00300.html
>
> \version "2.16.1"
> {
>   % fingering position command ignored on single polyphonic notes
>   % yet works with chord notation
>   << {s2} \\ { c''^5 <c''^5> }>>
> }
>
> This limitation makes for a lot of extra typing and yields difficult to
> read/maintain lilypond code when typesetting fingered polyphonic
> scores.

This is
Issue 1863: Explicit fingering direction (^3) has no effect if 
Fingering#'direction is set
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1863>

Actually low-hanging fruit.  Fix is easy and works, I am just doing a
regtest, and then this can enter the channels.  Of course, it is a
backwards-incompatible formatting change which might cause some chagrin
in connection with combining multiple voices that are also used in
isolation.  But maybe you are better off removing the fingering
altogether then.

-- 
David Kastrup