Re: Accidentals

[Paul Scott]

Paul Scott wrote:

> J L wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any historical reasons why LilyPond places a natural before 
> > a sharp?
> > i.e.   going from A-flat to A-sharp.
> \set Staff.extraNatural = ##f
>
> will stop this.
>
> > A similar thing happened with a key signature change.
> > i.e.   G major to A major resulted in F-natural + F-sharp & C-sharp & 
> > G-sharp
> >
> > It would be good if there was a way to prohibit this.
>
>
> \set Staff.printKeyCancellation = ##f
>
> does that.

This is at least true for 2.4.2 and is documented in lilypond-internals 
and can be accessed from Section 5.6.1 Automatic accidentals in the 
manual only after choosing one of these links:


         See also

Program reference: Accidental_engraver (lilypond-internals) 
<cid:part1.02090400.03030400@ultrasw.com> , Accidental 
(lilypond-internals) <cid:part2.07070006.00060903@ultrasw.com> , and 
AccidentalPlacement (lilypond-internals) 
<cid:part3.03080800.04070706@ultrasw.com> .

Paul