Re: Can't find right hand fingering without string #'s

[David Kastrup]

Sam Frybyte <address@hidden> writes:

> Thank you both- turns out that for a (annular or ring finger) the only
> thing that works is c-"a" the other two don't work.

And it never would have worked previously either since a on its own is a
note name.

> As for the 'incomprehensible' thank you Patrick for pointing out the
> missing backslash still wouldn't have worked but somehow in the
> copy/paste into the email it 'got lost'.

LilyPond has no \RH command either.  You wrote <c- 3/5- RH #1> which is
mostly gibberish.  The example in the manual instead is

#(define RH rightHandFinger)

\relative c {
  \clef "treble_8"
  <c-3\5-\RH #1 >4
  <e-2\4-\RH #2 >4
  <g-0\3-\RH #3 >4
  <c-1\2-\RH #4 >4
}

This first _defines_ RH.  It also does not write - 3/5 (which is a
fraction) but -3\5 which is a fingering of 3 followed by a string number
of 5.  #1> is not valid without a space after 1.  Once you don't
misspell everything, of course it works equally well for other numbers
as the example shows.

Please make it a habit not just to dump untested code in your postings
but rather check that they do what you claim they do.  It makes it
impossible to actually help with any problems when it is not even
possible to recognize what the problem might actually be.

-- 
David Kastrup