try starting with “!”
!5,#4,3
Didn’t work. It made all figures natural.
I tried 5#43, 5,#4,3, !5,#4,3, and !543.
I’ve tried 4,#5,3–34#5. Why won’t it read the raised 4th without raising the fifth?
The reason you can’t type it is probably because of the Note Input Options for diminshed intervals. Yours are probably set to “Adjust from the next Lowest figure”. This is what you want.
However, if the bass note is F, then #4 is B# (in the key of C).
Assuming you just want A, B and C, then the figures should just be 5, 4, 3.
You would only want a sharpened 4 if you were in the key of F. (And only then if you set "Calculate Accidentals Relative to Key Signature in Engraving Options > Figured Bass. Otherwise you’d want to type, and see, a natural.)
I thought so. Guitar is weird because it’s one of those instruments where jazz, classical, and rock theory converge and the conventions within each sometimes clash internally or across the cultures. The chord diagram is Fadd#11 but the figured bass relative to the key we’re in so just 5,4,3. Ok. Thanks. I was looking through Croton’s Baroque guitar to see if I could find anything.
So would that work for the diminished third “inversion” of the augmented sixth chord: D#-F-A-C?
Kevin,
Which kind of figured bass do you wishes ? The one to XVIIe century French music (Visée, or lutenists such Dufault or Mouton ?).
If yes, I would recommend that you download the GoFigure font by Ben, because Dorico default figured bass font is unable to write terms of French continuo of XVIIe and XVIIIe century.
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