Re: modern-cautionary accidentals

[Colin Campbell]

On 2015-06-07 03:54 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Patrick Karl , you wrote Sunday, June 07, 2015 10:27 PM
>
> > The discussion of Automatic Accidentals in the Chapter 1 of the Notation Manual 
> > says:
> > modern-cautionary
> > This rule is similar to modern, but the ‘extra’ accidentals (the ones not 
> > typeset
> > by default) are typeset as cautionary accidentals. They are by default printed
> > with parentheses, but they can also be printed in reduced size by defining the
> > cautionary-style property of AccidentalSuggestion.
> This looks to be an oversight. The cautionary-style property was deprecated
> in Release 2.11.5 but it seems the manual was not updated.  Thanks for pointing
> this out.
>
> The correct override is
>
> \version "2.19.20"
>
> {
>    \relative c'' {
>        \accidentalStyle neo-modern-cautionary
>        \override AccidentalCautionary #'font-size = #-2
>        
>        cis16 cis d cis    cis cis d d    d d d d     cis c c c
>     }
>   }
>
> > Also, the neo-modern-cautionary discussion does not mention the possibility
> > of reduced size accidentals; wouldn’t the info under modern-cautionary also 
> > apply to neo-modern-cautionary.
> Yes, the example above shows this.
>
> Copying to bug-list ...

Recorded as Issue 4437 
<https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4437>: DOC: Clarify 
modern-cautionary accidental styles

Cheers,
Colin

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