Re: Courtesy Accidentals and Abbv.

[Brian Barker]

At 23:42 30/08/2016 -0500, Bonly Monly Gonly wrote:
> How does one show courtesy accidentals (specifically a natural sign), ...

The Notation Manual distinguishes between reminder and cautionary 
accidentals; I'm not sure which you mean:
"Normally accidentals are printed automatically, but you may also 
print them manually. A reminder accidental can be forced by adding an 
exclamation mark ! after the pitch. A cautionary accidental (i.e., an 
accidental within parentheses) can be obtained by adding the question 
mark ? after the pitch. These extra accidentals can also be used to 
produce natural signs."

> ... and also how does one display the abbreviated names to the left 
> of each system.

Again, the The Notation Manual:
"The value of instrumentName is used for the first staff, and the 
value of shortInstrumentName is used for all succeeding staves."
- and its example:

\new Staff \with {
instrumentName = #"Violin "
shortInstrumentName = #"Vln. "
}
{ c4.. g'16 c4.. g'16 \break | c1 }

Brian Barker