Controlling the placement of chord fingerings - Revision history

Lemzwerg at 18:52, 11 December 2025

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Lemzwerg: New category

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Jean Abou Samra: Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

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Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

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	These properties can be set to a list of one to three values. They control whether fingerings may be placed above (if <code>up</code> appears in the list), below (if <code>down</code> appears), to the left (if <code>left</code> appears), or to the right (if <code>right</code> appears). Conversely, if a location is not listed, no fingering is placed there. LilyPond takes these constraints and works out the best placement for the fingering of the notes of the following chords. Note that <code>left</code> and <code>right</code> are mutually exclusive – fingerings may be placed only on one side or the other, not both.		These properties can be set to a list of one to three values. They control whether fingerings may be placed above (if <code>up</code> appears in the list), below (if <code>down</code> appears), to the left (if <code>left</code> appears), or to the right (if <code>right</code> appears). Conversely, if a location is not listed, no fingering is placed there. LilyPond takes these constraints and works out the best placement for the fingering of the notes of the following chords. Note that <code>left</code> and <code>right</code> are mutually exclusive – fingerings may be placed only on one side or the other, not both.

	<lilypond version="2.24.0">		<lilypond version="2.24">
	\relative c' {		\relative c' {
	\set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)		\set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:38:04Z

Import snippet from LSR

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The placement of fingering numbers can be controlled precisely by using the property <code>fingeringOrientation</code>. For fingering orientation to apply, the fingering command must be used within a chord construct (<code><...></code>), even for single notes. Orientation for string numbers and right-hand fingerings may be controlled in a similar way by using the properties <code>stringNumberOrientation</code> and <code>strokeFingerOrientation</code>, respectively.

These properties can be set to a list of one to three values. They control whether fingerings may be placed above (if <code>up</code> appears in the list), below (if <code>down</code> appears), to the left (if <code>left</code> appears), or to the right (if <code>right</code> appears). Conversely, if a location is not listed, no fingering is placed there. LilyPond takes these constraints and works out the best placement for the fingering of the notes of the following chords. Note that <code>left</code> and <code>right</code> are mutually exclusive – fingerings may be placed only on one side or the other, not both.

<lilypond version="2.24.0">
\relative c' {
\set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
<c-1 e-3 a-5>4
\set fingeringOrientations = #'(down)
<c-1 e-3 a-5>4
\set fingeringOrientations = #'(down right up)
<c-1 e-3 a-5>4
\set fingeringOrientations = #'(up)
<c-1 e-3 a-5>4
\set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
<c-1>2
\set fingeringOrientations = #'(down)
<e-3>2
\set stringNumberOrientations = #'(up left down)
<f\3 a\2 c\1>1
\set strokeFingerOrientations = #'(down right up)
<c\rightHandFinger 1 e\rightHandFinger 2 c'\rightHandFinger 4 >
}
</lilypond>

[[Category:Expressive marks]]
[[Category:Editorial annotations]]
[[Category:Specific notation]]
[[Category:Keyboards]]
[[Category:Chords]]
[[Category:Fretted strings]]
[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]