Re: Accidents

[Paul Scott]

Michael Smith wrote:

> Dear Sir or Madam:
>
> I have completed the tutorial and started coding my first piece of 
> music.  There is a problem that I cannot find a resolution.  I am 
> currently using lilypond to update some of our choir music that was 
> written many years ago.  One song is "Eternal Father" and I thought 
> this would be a good start for using lilypond.
>
> I actually need to add a total of four voices but I thought it would 
> be best to get this notation working correctly before moving on with 
> the voices.
>
> Here's my problem:  When I view the music in adobe, all the b, e, a 
> and d are shown as naturals.  Obviously these should not be shown as 
> flats.  I am attaching the eternal.ly and eternal.pdf files for your 
> review.  I'm sure there is a simple solution for this.  Also, I have 
> the same problem when I use the \key es \major but not when I use \key 
> c \minor.  This one really puzzled me since they both have b flat, e 
> flat and a flat. 

1.  You must show us some of your Lilypond (.ly) so we can help.

2. You probably moce the same mistake that I and others first made.  You 
must use B flat (bes) when you mean B flat.  Lily is not like programs 
like Finale that use the key signature to alter the note.  b -is b 
natural and bes is b flat no mater what the key signature.

Paul Scott