Re: Accidentals patch

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > 
> > the effect of an accidental alteration is not carried into the next
> > measure by a tied note. You have to restate the accidental on the 2nd
> > note in the measure without the break.  I agree that it looks a little
> > silly when the first note also has an accidental (due to the line
> > break), but technically it is correct, since the 2nd one is needed to
> > determine the pitch of the note.
> 
> This is not true accourding to stone's book.
> On p. 55 (II pitch -> Accidentals -> E. Tied accidentals) this exact
> situation is handled - and according to Stone the accidental on the tied
> note (first note on the line) is enough - and the accidental doesn't
> need to be repeated on the 2nd note.
> 
> Comments?

Yes: this is impossible to do right with the current lily: we don't
know where the line breaks are when we generate the score, so we can't
automatically put in or switch off those accidentals, not without
mangling up the spacing. I suggest we junk this entire "accidental on
broken tie" feature -- and let the user do it by hand. 

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