Re: Figured bass symbols in a text.

[Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>]

On 10 aug. 2012, at 21:09, 19:59:36, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote
> The next beta has:
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \definelow       [MyLow]   [style=\txx]
> \definehigh      [MyHigh]  [style=\txx]
> \definelowhigh   [MyLoHi]  [style=\txx]
> \definelowmidhigh[MyLoMiHi][style=\txx]
> 
> We have
>     \ruledhbox{\low         {L}} and \ruledhbox{\MyLow         {L}} and
>     \ruledhbox{\high        {H}} and \ruledhbox{\MyHigh        {H}} and
>     \ruledhbox{\lohi     {L}{H}} and \ruledhbox{\MyLoHi     {L}{H}} and
>     \ruledhbox{\lomihi{L}{M}{H}} and \ruledhbox{\MyLoMiHi{L}{M}{H}}.
> 
> \stoptext

Hi Hans,
I just tested this for the figured bass symbols in my text. It is perfect.

And it has at least one important advantage over the plain-TeX method, kindly offered by Michael Rogers, in that it uses the same font as that for he main text, which, in my case, will be probably a sans-serif font. The plain TeX solution, as far as I could see, uses only the serif version of LM, so it would haven given me serif-like figured bass symbols in an otherwise sans-serif document.

Thank you very much.

Kind regards,
Robert


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