Looks like the default installation setting for the "Force Cautionary 
Accidental" is hidden and can't be added to any pull-down menus - the 
suggestion is to add it as a palette button.  I followed the suggestion, then 
tried to trigger it, but nothing happens.

I tried cursoring to the note with implied (key signature) accidental and 
clicking the button, and also tried selecting-highlighting the note. Still 
nothing.

1. Is there a bug preventing it from functioning?
2. Cautionary accidentals are fairly common in typesetting, so I think it 
should have a legitimate place among other available commands -- perhaps under 
Notes/Rests -> Markings -> Accidentals

Under the (new item) Accidentals we could have

* Cautionary (Courtesy) Accidental
* Respell as Sharp (enharmonic alternate)
* Respell as Flat (enharmonic alternate)

3. Should probably include the word "Courtesy" parenthetically, as that is one 
of the common ways of referring to this phenomenon.  Some may search 
"cautionary" in command center and not find

The resulting typesetting should be a parenthetic accidental (e.g., "(#)" or 
the flat equivalent)

4. I mentioned Respell as sharp/flat -- but that is a separate function that is 
sometimes needed... Not sure what the denemo-to-lilypond mapping function would 
be here... where lilypond achieves this through the "!" syntax  (i think?), 
such as "cis!" -- and what a \transpose  function in lilypond does with this, 
but the need exists on rare occasions.

5. Also, I think "Force cautionary accidental" is redundant, because all 
"cautionary accidentals" are "forced" typeset-wise, by definition (kind of like 
saying "happy euphoria")

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