Re: Horizontal alignment of figured bass figures

> 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.  [...]

This is issue #3172.

  https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/work_items/3172

> 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?

It's a shortcoming, as the report describes.  I fear you have to cook
up a manual solution right now, i.e., encapsulating the suggested
changes into a macro and applying it to whole notes only.

Of course, any fixes are more than welcome :-)


    Werner