From Irwin's standard -

> 8.3. Accidental directives
> %%propagate-accidentals <not | octave | pitch>
>
> When set to not, accidentals apply only to the note
> they're attached to. When set to octave, accidentals
> also apply to all the notes of the same pitch in the
> same octave up to the end of the bar. When set to
> pitch, accidentals also apply to all the notes of the
> same pitch in all octaves up to the end of the bar.
>
> The default value is pitch.
>

       but as Richard Robinson points our elsewhere -

>All these %%whatever usages are
>based on the point that the first character makes it a comment, and thus
>anything behind that will be ignored by any ABC application unless it takes
>the trouble specifically to look for it.

If this one is ignored, it will affect the playback of tunes.  It is a necessary function but it should be part of the abc standard not part of the stylesheet specification.

Bryan Creer




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