Horizontal alignment of figured bass figures
Antonie Blom <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:16:15 +0000
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Hey all,
I've noticed that Lilypond left-aligns figured bass figures with
respect to their notes. This works well enough for note values up to a
minim, but I've noticed it looks off for the wider note heads of
semibreves and breves.
Example:
% The figures are left-aligned on the notes, but I want them centered
\version "2.26.0"
<<
{ \time 3/1 f''\breve 1 }
\figures { <6 4>\breve <5 3>1 }
>>
It seems that none of the relevant figured bass grobs support the
self-alignment-interface, which is how you'd usually configure
horizontal alignment. Is there something I'm missing, or is this a
shortcoming in Lilypond?
All the best,
Antonie
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