Re: Setting accidentalStyle for all Score contexts

[Alexander Kobel]

On 08/20/2014 05:14 PM, Richard Shann wrote:
> The documentation
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#automatic-accidentals
>
> shows how to set the accidental style for a Score context, but when
> there are several movements I find that putting
>
>        \layout{\context {
>          \Score
>          \accidentalStyle neo-modern-voice-cautionary
>        }}
>
> before the first \score { } block sets neo-modern-voice-cautionary on
> all the succeeding score blocks.
>
> Have I stumbled on some dodgy feature, or is this actually documented?

AFAICS this is expected behaviour, similar to setting per-score headers. 
 If you want it to only apply for one specific score, you should move 
your layout-context block inside the score: with

\score {
  \music...

  \layout {
    \context {
      \Score
      \accidentalStyle neo-modern-voice-cautionary
    }
  }
}

it should apply only for this score.  Outside of the score block, it 
will apply for all future scores.  (Untested.)


Best,
Alexander