Re: tenuto fingering: 3t, 2t, 4t, etc.

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven 4 mag 2018 alle 6:54, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> Il giorno gio 3 mag 2018 alle 9:47, Torsten 
> =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4mmerle?= <"torsten.haemmerle"@web.de> ha scritto:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > And the remaining problem of \finger in this case is that \finger 
> > (just as
> > \number) uses the Feta numbers from the Emmentaler notation font.
> > As this font does not contain the letter "t", the t will be taken 
> > from a
> > replacement font (in this case some sans serif font).
> >
> > The best out-of-the-box solution I can think of is using bold t with 
> > a
> > matching font size and slightly adjusted baseline, as in:
> >
> > \markup \concat { \finger 3 \fontsize #-3 \raise #0.03 \bold t }
> >
> > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t3887/finger-3t.png>
>
> Thanks, this is exactly what I want.
>
> Perhaps a smart function may be created but as I need only 4 
> variations I can simply use 4 variables:
>
> unoT = \markup \concat { \finger 1 \fontsize #-2.5 \raise #0.03 \bold 
> t }
> dueT = \markup \concat { \finger 2 \fontsize #-2.5 \raise #0.03 \bold 
> t }
> treT = \markup \concat { \finger 3 \fontsize #-2.5 \raise #0.03 \bold 
> t }
> quattroT = \markup \concat { \finger 4 \fontsize #-2.5 \raise #0.03 
> \bold t }

The downside of this approach is that it creates TextScript objects, so 
in case a score (as in my real project) is using some padding for 
TextScript objects then the custom fingering will be placed away from 
the note.

Even if I was able to change David's function to use a markup for the 
t, then the problem would remain: the number would be aligned correctly 
but the t would not.
The obvious solution is overriding the TextScript padding when using 
these markup commands.

However I wonder if a better fallback could be provided when using a 
letter with \finger.
As Feta numbers look as bold serif fonts, shouldn't the t in `\finger 
"3t"` fall back to serif instead of sans?