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Re: Courtesy Accidentals and Abbv.


From: Paul Scott
Subject: Re: Courtesy Accidentals and Abbv.
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:01:00 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.6.2-neo (2016-07-23)

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:42:06PM -0500, bmg xc9 wrote:
> How does one show courtesy accidentals (specifically a natural sign),

An exclamation point between the pitch name and the time value gives
the appropriate flat, sharp or natural and a question mark puts that
accidental in parentheses.

Using English pitchnames a!4 will give a quarter note A.

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

with shortInstrumentName

See 1.6.3 in the notation manual if you are using 2.18 or 2.19

HTH

Paul





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