Re: Default Accidentals

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:25:15 -0600
Richard Grubb <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am entering a piece of music in the key of D major. But lilypond 1.6.0 
> is putting a natural sign in front of all my f and c notes. I thought 
> the default behavior was to print the note without any accidental and 
> the musician would infer it was to be played as f sharp and c sharp from 
> the key signature.

-snip-
 
>                       f4. e8 d4 e4 | f4 eis4 f4 d4 | e4 e4 e4 e4 | e1 |

You told Lilypond to print an f-natural (f4), so it did so.  If you want
an f-sharp, use fis.

Cheers,
- Graham