Re: Quick question about accidentals

[David Kastrup]

David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for these 2 replies.  I have tidied things up a bit by using
>
> \once \omit Accidental
>
> as suggested by Noeck.
>
> David's reply has given me several things to look up and think about
> (which is good!).  The quoted "@", \single and \etc were all
> effectively new to me - although I must have read about them more than
> once in the NR.  I don't think I understand them well enough even now,
> though, for me to have invented
>
> "@"=\single \omit Accidental \etc

Well, @ is just an arbitrary character that isn't used yet by LilyPond.
& would probably also have worked.  \single converts an override (like
\omit Accidental) into the corresponding tweak.  \etc cuts a music
function call short and results in a music function that expects the
remaining arguments.  Sooo...

\omit Accidental is an override
\single \omit Accidental is incomplete syntax missing a tweak target
\single \omit Accidental \etc is a music function expecting such a target

So:

>> "@"=\single \omit Accidental \etc
>> 
>> { @cis1 }

Of course you can write this @ cis1 as well.  I was just aiming for a
single-character version.

-- 
David Kastrup