Re: #'hide-tied-accidental-after-break

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Peter O'Doherty <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>>
>> When using these two lines together
>>
>> #(set-accidental-style 'dodecaphonic) 
>> \override Accidental #'hide-tied-accidental-after-break = ##t
>>
>>
>> \override Accidental... cancels out the dodecaphonic command
>> everywhere in the score.
>
> If you are using a somewhat recent version of LilyPond, the problem more
> likely is that you accidentally did not set the accidental style in the
> first place.  Note that #(set-accidental-style 'dodecaphonic) written in
> music does nothing: it calculates music expressions that set the
> accidental style, then returns them as a Scheme value, and LilyPond
> ignores Scheme in music by default (not so as an argument of a music
> function, however).
>
> You have to write $(set-accidental-style 'dodecaphonic) instead, or more
> simply,
>
> \accidentalStyle "dodecaphonic"

I have fixed this surprise in
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2637>

Note that this will still not allow you to write
#(set-accidental-style 'dodecaphonic) in a \layout block, just within
proper music.

-- 
David Kastrup