fingerHorizontalDirection Bug?

[Jonathan Levi MD]

Hi,

According to the LilyPond Manual, Section 3.9 "Fingering", fingering 
instructions may be placed to the left or right of a note using

\property Voice.fingerHorizontalDirection = #LEFT, etc.

However, when I tried to use this, I got a message that parameters to 
Voice.fingerHorizontalDirection must be of type integer.  Please see 
attached tarball for example, PDF output, and log. I'm using LilyPond 
Version 1.8.1, built from source with Fink, and MacOS 10.2.8.

BTW, it would be very useful indeed if you could correct the known 
bug, that fingerings are only placed horizontally when there is 
fingering above and below the notes. The piano piece I'm working has 
dozens of chords with three fingerings above each chord (there's no 
space to put them underneath the chord instead of above) which is 
spreading the systems needlessly far apart and wasting pages that 
would otherwise be unneeded.

And also BTW, please don't take these remarks out of perspective -- 
I'm very glad indeed for LilyPond, which has greatly increased my 
capacity for music composition. Many thanks!

Jonathan

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