Re: accidentals and broken bars

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Is there a possibility to automatically get a sharp accidental for
>> the third quarter note?  I could neither find a hint in the manual
>> nor in the regression tests...
> 
> Accident rules are implemented before line-breaking.  If they were
> to take line-breaking into account, they'd need to be quite more
> complex.  There is some special-cased code trying to fudge around an
> accidental on a tied note broken across a barline (it should have a
> repeated accidental only when a linebreak occurs) but it cannot deal
> with followup changes: if another note with an accidental follows,
> _that_ accidental always is printed even if spurious.
> 
> One would have to think up a good data structure to cater in advance
> for all possible line breaks and how to write rules in anticipation
> of it.

Thanks for the explanation.  What about the other way round, this is,
adding some information to the invisible bar line that defines a
broken bar, and which accidentals could use to print themselves in
such cases?


    Werner