Re: how to stop an accidental from being printed?

[Karl Hammar]

> I was entering Erik Satie's piece "Vexations" which is heavy on
> accidentals.  In front of the sharps and flats, lilypond puts a (*)
> symbol, where * represents the "natural" accidental.  This gets
> annoying.  Is there a way to turn it off?  I just want the accidentals
> themselves to be shown;  if you go from bes to bis, I'll assume that it
> is relative to b; no need to put b-natural symbol in front of the sharp
> symbol.
...

In the fine manual under
 Basic notation / Pitches / Accidentals / Commonly tweaked properties 

\set Staff.extraNatural = ##f

Regards
/Karl