Re: Issue 1701 in lilypond: default accidental style prints too many 'extra' naturals

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:40:08PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> address@hidden writes:
>> 
>> > In light of the discussion about this patch, how hard would it be to
>> > make it controllable?  I don't have a good idea of the name, since
>> > IIRC we already have an extraNatural property.
>> 
>> As long as not a single user _wants_ the old behavior, why bother?
>
> I thought that some people _did_ want that behavior.  There is some
> discussion about whether or not they _should_ want that behavior, but
> if it's easy to accommodate them, I'd rather that lilypond allow
> people to shoot themselves in the foot if they specifically request
> it.

If there is no example of a composition using the feature except old
Lilypond printouts, supporting this is a distraction in code and
documentation.

-- 
David Kastrup