LilyPond Internals Reference: 2.1.10 FiguredBass

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A context for printing a figured bass line.

This context sets the following properties:

Set grob property nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing.padding in VerticalAxisGroup to 0.5.
Set grob property nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding in VerticalAxisGroup to 0.5.
Set grob property remove-empty in VerticalAxisGroup to #t.
Set grob property remove-first in VerticalAxisGroup to #t.
Set grob property staff-affinity in VerticalAxisGroup to 1.

This is a ‘Bottom’ context; no contexts will be created implicitly from it.

This context cannot contain other contexts.

This context is built from the following engraver(s):

Group all objects created in this context in a VerticalAxisGroup spanner.

Properties (read)

currentCommandColumn (graphical (layout) object): Grob that is X-parent to all current breakable items (clef, key signature, etc.).
hasAxisGroup (boolean): True if the current context is contained in an axis group.
keepAliveInterfaces (list): A list of symbols, signifying grob interfaces that are worth keeping a staff with remove-empty set around for.

Properties (write)

hasAxisGroup (boolean): True if the current context is contained in an axis group.

This engraver creates the following layout object(s): VerticalAxisGroup.

Make figured bass numbers.

Properties (read)

figuredBassAlterationDirection (direction): Where to put alterations relative to the main figure.
figuredBassCenterContinuations (boolean): Whether to vertically center pairs of extender lines. This does not work with three or more lines.
figuredBassFormatter (procedure): A routine generating a markup for a bass figure.
ignoreFiguredBassRest (boolean): Don’t swallow rest events.
implicitBassFigures (list): A list of bass figures that are not printed as numbers, but only as extender lines.
useBassFigureExtenders (boolean): Whether to use extender lines for repeated bass figures.

Generate objects for computing spacing parameters.

Properties (read)

createSpacing (boolean): Create StaffSpacing objects? Should be set for staves.

Properties (write)

hasStaffSpacing (boolean): True if currentCommandColumn contains items that will affect spacing.

This engraver creates the following layout object(s): StaffSpacing.

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