Thank you very much! I also want to 1) have the figures above the staff and 2) have the alterations to the right. I had been achieving this by using "\override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP" and "\set Staff.figuredBassAlterationDirection = #RIGHT"; I managed to get the second one using this code:
{
\clef bass << { c2 }
\new FiguredBass { \figuremode {\set figuredBassAlterationDirection = #RIGHT
<7>2 <6-> }}
>>
}
, however, I don't know how to have the figures above the staff now. I looked at the list of parameters I can set for the figured bass engraver,
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/figured_005fbass_005fengraver , and the position of alterations is there, but the position of the figures itself relative to the staff is not. I read a few pages regarding the engraving of figured bass, e.g.
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/figuredbass ,
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/bassfigurealignmentpositioning , and
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/figured_005fbass_005fposition_005fengraver , but somehow I can't find the information. Could you give me some pointers as to how I should search the documentation for the information I'm looking for? I entered "BassFigureAlignmentPositioning" in the internals search index, thinking that my mistake was that it was a parameter I was trying to override in a Staff context, which now does nothing, while probably reference to some other context was needed, but I was unable to find the proper name. I eventually thought that using 'FiguredBass' instead of 'Staff' could work:
{
\clef bass << { c2 }
\new FiguredBass { \figuremode {\set figuredBassAlterationDirection = #RIGHT
\override FiguredBass.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP <7>2 <6-> }}
>>
}
but no, it does nothing. What is, then, the correct value of x for "\override x.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP" inside an explicitly instantiated FiguredBass?
Thank you very much again!
Best regards,
Leszek.