Re: get an accidental to not print

[Mats Bengtsson]

Trevor Bača wrote:
> On 2/9/07, Adam Good <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> If you write ...
>
> %%% BEGIN %%%
>
> \new Staff {
>   \once \override Accidental #'transparent = ##t
>   cis'2
> }
>
> %%% END %%%
>
> ... you'll get the effect of the sharp sign not printing.
>
> (The sharp sign does actually print, but it prints transparently. This
> means that the transparent accidental consumes space in the horizontal
> layout (which you might notice, but only if you've got *very* dense
> music). So this might get you what you want.)
If you instead use
\once \override Accidental #'stencil = ##f
then the invisible accidental will not even take any space.

  /Mats