Re: Editorial accidentals

[Simon Albrecht]

On 24.06.2017 22:09, Menu Jacques wrote:
> What are editorial accidentals actually, and is there a way to produce them 
> with Lily?

I don’t know what musicxml means by an editorial accidental, but 
generally an editorial accidental may take lots of forms depending on 
style/policy: in round parens, in angled brackets, in smaller font size, 
in grey colour (which I personally like a lot, though it’s difficult to 
get printed well), or above the staff as Phil already mentioned.
The great thing is that with LilyPond you can use a music function and 
adapt this function in a style sheet. Mine is called \ed for typing 
economy and offers some abbreviations, like
{ \ed Acc cis }
covering all of Accidental, AccidentalSuggestion, AccidentalCautionary.

Best, Simon