Re: Removing the key signature without loosing accidentials

[Mats Bengtsson]

Why not simply use the property 'transparent' of the KeySignature
layout object?

   /Mats

Sven Axelsson wrote:
> Hello List.
>
> This question is for Lilypond 2.4.2.
>
> I've recently started to use Lilypond for typesetting music for the Highland
> Bagpipe, having used MusicTeX for many years before. The bagpipe specific
> stuff is working fine - I started out with Andrew McNabb's definitions and
> changed a lot of stuff to better suit my previous work.
>
> One peculiarity for bagpipe music is that it is written as in C major (no
> accidentials) when it actually is using a \key a \mixolydian. I am dealing
> with this now by brute force:
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Staff
>     \remove "Key_engraver"
>     \remove "Accidental_engraver"
>   }
> }
>
> But this means that I can't use accidentials on the (very few) places where
> they actually should be used. I guess I can always do e.g. c^\markup{\flat},
> but it isn't the same. Is there a better way?

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