Re: New figured bass capabilities and some request

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Matevz Jekovec wrote:
> But in practice, you have about the same amount of extended and
> non-extended markings and switching them all the time this way is a bit
> space consuming. My question is, is there a way to add an extender line
> manually on certain chords? I have something like eg. <6 5> <6 4> for
> unextended 6th and <6 5> <6_ 4> for the extended 6th in mind. I think
> this wouldn't be too difficult to implement, if it's not yet possible.

I can add something along the lines of

 <6 5> <6\noContinuation 4>

(of course, you can define your own name to use a shorter word.)

Would you like to sponsor this? The worok involved will be minor, so 40 
euro would do.

> 2) The thirds for the stable chords are usually completely ommitted in
> practice. In case there's an accidental before the third, only the
> accidental itself is shown, without the number 3. Is there a way to use
> +/- alteration markings as an independent element? eg. This example
> would show the sixth released to fifth and with lying sharp below: <6
> +>  <5 +_>.

Now that you mention it, Trent explicitly requested this, and I think I 
forgot to implement it.  I will get coding.

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