Re: Resizing accidental in a chord

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Resizing accidental in a chord


> Am 03.11.2010 17:25, schrieb Toine Schreurs:
> > > I looked into the internals and tried
> > > \key b \major
> > > \override Voice.AccidentalSuggestion #'font-size = #-5
> > > <fis ais cis!>4
> > > but this didn't work as expected and I don't know why.
> > What about making cautinary accidentals<fis ais cis?>  and:
> > \override Voice.AccidentalCautionary #'font-size = #-5
> > \override Voice.AccidentalCautionary #'parenthesized = ##f
> Ok, yes, but why has the AccidentalSuggestion override
> no effect?
>
> Is this a bug?

Not that I can see.  It took me a while to work this out, but the 
accidentals we have been talking about are not Suggestion ones, but 
Cautionary.  See 
http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/ajax/Documentation/notation/typesetting-mensural-music.html#Annotational-accidentals-_0028musica-ficta_0029

So to change their typesetting, we need to vary Voice.AccidentalCautionary, 
not Voice.AccidentalSuggestion.  I think I'll add this to the LSR to make it 
clear.

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Phil Holmes