How to place finger numbers below staff in LilyPond?
I cannot find out, how to place the finger numbers below the staff of the left hand staff in a piano staff.
The command set fingeringOrientation = #'(down) does not work or it only works with chords.
This is an example:
version "2.19.83"
score {
new PianoStaff <<
new Staff a'1-1
new Staff relative c, {
clef bass
set fingeringOrientations = #'(down)
c4-5 tuplet 3/2 { c8-5 f-2 g-1 } tuplet 3/2 { a-2 g-1 f-2 } c4
}
>>
layout { }
}
And this is the result:
I'd like to have the finger numbers for the left hand below the staff. How can I do this?
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Just specify whether you want them up or down for each note, using ^ or _ instead of -.
version "2.19.83"
score {
new PianoStaff <<
new Staff a'1-1
new Staff relative c, {
clef bass
c4_5 tuplet 3/2 { c8_5 f_2 g_1 } tuplet 3/2 { a_2 g_1 f_2 } c4
}
>>
layout { }
}
If you want to position a larger number of fingerings, you can use override Fingering.direction = #-1:
version "2.19.83"
score {
new PianoStaff <<
new Staff a'1-1
new Staff relative c, {
clef bass
override Fingering.direction = #-1
c4-5 tuplet 3/2 { c8-5 f-2 g-1 } tuplet 3/2 { a-2 g-1 f-2 } c4
}
>>
layout { }
}
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