Re: how to stop an accidental from being printed?

[Ted Walther]

That worked nicely; I was so busy Googling I never thought of looking in
the beginning of the manual.  Thank you Karl.  The pages on lilypond and
accidentals that Google popped up didn't say a word about this.

Ted

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:57:40PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote:
> > 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

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