Re: get an accidental to not print

[Trevor Bača]

On 2/10/07, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen <at> lilypond.org> writes:
>
> >
> > Adam Good escreveu:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > sorry if this has been addressed already, it's hard for me to find any
> > > reference in the archive.
> > >
> > > ! = print the accidental manually
> > > ? = print a cautionary accidental
> > >
> > > what about _don't_ print an accidental? like i write "cis" but don't
> > > want it to print the accidental?
> > >
> > I think this is not possible; might be mistaken though.
> >
>
> The documentation says that accidentals use the item-interface.
>
> The item-interface has the property break-visibility. One of the predefined
> variables for break-visibility is all-invisible, which looks to me like it
> should keep accidentals from printing.
>
> But I'm not sure what syntak to use to set break-visibility for the
> item-interface for accidentals.

break-visibility wants a vector and there are apparently a collection
of constants that expand into vectors, like this ...

%%% BEGIN %%%

\version "2.11.16"

\new Staff {
  \override Accidental #'break-visibility = #all-invisible
  cis'4
  cis'4
  cis'4
  cis'4
  \break
  cis'4
  cis'4
  cis'4
  cis'4
}

%%% END %%%

... which does appear to work, oddly enough. Note no tick before
all-invisible (or all-visible or whatever), just like no tick before
numbers and colors.


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Trevor Bača
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