Re: Hidden accidentals hiding visible ones

[David Kastrup]

Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:

> This is probably user error rather than anything else, but I just
> wasted 20 minutes wondering why an accidental on a note in a score was
> missing in the PDF output before realising that the same note appeared
> earlier in the same bar but in a hidden voice.
>
> In most guitar scores I use a hidden voice for such things as
> simultaneous text spanners, arpeggio brackets to indicate barring,
> etc.
>
> The following example shows that the order of the voices in the source
> file affects whether the accidental appears or not:

Is it an option to write the hidden voice without accidental?  Maybe one
should mention this caveat in the manual?  After all, the use of hidden
voices is suggested for several feats.  And it would seem weird if the
transparency was interpreted by the accidental engraver in this manner:
after all, the point of transparency is to do everything as-if.

-- 
David Kastrup