Re: How to force acidental and naturals in Atonal Music

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:47:45AM -0300, Hugo Leonardo Ribeiro wrote:
> I am pretty sure that someone asked this question before, but I couldn't
> find it in the web. Anyway, here it goes again.
> 
> I am writing a atonal music for solo instrument, so it would be easier
> to read if every note had its own accident (natural, sharp or flat), so
> the performer wouldn't worry about look at the whole bar to see if the
> last note is a C sharp or C natural. So:
> 
> - Is there a way to force Lilypond to engrave every accidental in the
> note without having to write the exclamation (!) in every note?

The ways of adding accidentals to music automatically is cunningly
hidden in NR 1.1.3 Automatic accidentals.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-pitches#Automatic-accidentals

hint: the one you want starts with "do".

Cheers,
- Graham