Re: Courtesy Accidentals and Abbv.

2016-08-30 Thread Paul Scott 
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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Re: Courtesy Accidentals and Abbv.

2016-08-30 Thread 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 



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