Re: ferneyhough

[Mats Bengtsson]

luis jure wrote:
> El Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:16:02 +0000
> Mark Knoop <address@hidden> escribió:
>
>   
> > Attached FYI is the source for some excerpts from the second movement
> > of Opus Contra Naturam...
> >     
>
> thanks for sharing this excerpt, i found many things to learn.
>
> but could you please clarify this part of the code? :
>
>     % the 5s are just "a value different from any accidental"
>     \set Staff.keySignature = #'((0 . 5) (1 . 5) (2 . 5) (3 . 5)
>                                  (4 . 5) (5 . 5) (6 . 5))
>
> i searched Staff.keySignature in the manual and the example is somewhat
> different, involving pairs ((octave . step) . alter). 
See the latest manual for version 2.11:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Key-signature#Key-signature
> i also get lots
> of warnings when compiling:
>
> warning: No glyph found for alteration: 5
>
> i found the example in the LSR but without much explanation. i guess
> it's a bogus alteration to force naturals appearing before notes
> without alteration. could anyone elaborate a bit on how and why this
> works?
>   
See 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-08/msg00533.html with
all follow-ups for the discussion behind this LSR example.

   /Mats