On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
if I'm not mistaken (and a very recent post in the German forum
http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=2465.0 seems to confirm
that) LilyPond doesn't have built-in support for italics in fingerings.
As using italics for fingerings is a regular use case (e.g. to
differentiate between editor's and composer's fingerings) I would like
to see native support for italics in fingerings.
So there would have to be a) glyphs for italics numbers in Emmentaler
and b) a way to choose between upright and italics for fingerings.
The default mechanism uses the 'fetaText encoding to get the numbers. If
you
\override Fingering.font-encoding = 'latin1
you should then be able to change the font to any normal text font and turn
on Italics.