Figured bass: octave/quint/third position symbols available?
Hi!
I am searching for the possibility to add voice positioning symbols (like an 8 below a circumflex) to a figured bass sequence. Are such symbols available? Or is there any other trick to be used with Musescore?
Thank you!
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Seems like there is a "ScaleDegree" font, and also Toccata has proper symbols for those.
For those of us not familiar with what you're looking for, can you point us to an image of the desired end result?
In reply to For those of us not familiar… by jeetee
Absolutely, sure!
I prepare harmony exercises for students of mine. Sometimes I'd like to indicate, which chord inversion should be used above a bass note. To do that the numbers "8" or "5" or "3" (with a circumflex "^") can be used to "describe" the top-most note of the (root) harmony at place.
The screenshot will probably tell more then my words. :-)
In reply to Absolutely, sure! I prepare… by rowild
Given the example I'd go for a plain normal staff text to add such texts.
In reply to Given the example I'd go for… by jeetee
The text type is clear, but the font that provides numbers with circumflexes wasn't. And I assumed that Musescore's Figured Bass options had them integrated.
In reply to The text type is clear, but… by rowild
According to https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/figured-bass it doesn't.
Feel free to open it up in a font editor and verify: you're looking for the mscore-BC font from https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/tree/3.x/fonts/
In reply to The text type is clear, but… by rowild
The carets should be available in any reasonably full-featured font (eg, FreeSerif) - in the Unicode "Combining diacritical marks" block. HOwever, it won't necessarily be a good fit over numerals, I think it's often designed to fit over lower case letters.
In reply to The text type is clear, but… by rowild
Thanks for your feedbacks!
I am happy with what Toccata and ScaleDegree do.