No, of course, but it is still a work around. It makes me look at
accidental_engraver.cc and consider whether to re-write it to allow having
no key signature as apposed to assuming a blank key signature is always C
Major. If it were a trivial case of allowing a conditional statement to
check whether the key signature is equal to null, for instance, and making
the natural equivalent to the sharp and flat in that instance, it might be
simple enough for me. But first I'd have to study the logic of the entire
file and I doubt I have time to do that.
The first thing I thought of was to use the line:
\layout { \context { \Staff \remove Key_engraver } }
And I'd still like to see whether something along those lines could be made
to trigger the desired behaviour in the accidental engraver. You know,
again, so that the absence of a key signature is given a separate case from
C Major.
My preoccupation with simplicity stems from the fact that I am not a
programmer and cannot handle the level of detail that a good programmer can,
even though I know everything there is to know about C syntax, which isn't
much since it is a wonderfully simple language. My desire would always be to
leave Lilypond as simple and intuitive as possible as well.
So I am just reminding myself and others that it is a less than ideal
solution because it is. In order to use atonicKey, the user must know to set
the KeySignature print-function to f and not use it with \midi.
Due to the fact that I understand programming, but am unable to pursue it
seriously, it is a dilema for me whether to post to the user forum or the
developer forum. Since my comments are intended only to be understood by
developers, I stick mostly to the developer forum. But my goal will always
be to attempt to make things simple enough that even I can understand them
whether as a user of as a developer.
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Sandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lilypond-devel@gnu.org>; "Mehmet
Okonsar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Force Accidentals
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17.12, Stephen wrote:
The latest thing I learned about atonicKey is that is won't work with
\midi.
Of course that is not because it is bad, but because it is not standard
and
\midi does not anticipate the key signature. If anything is to be blamed,
it is midi which needs to be updated. But is it a low priority and
understandably so. Lilypond's paper output will always have the higher
priority.
If it breaks midi, why don't you just make a separate \score block for
midi
output, without the atonicKey command? Accidental displaying conventions
shoulnd't make a difference on midi output anyway.
Erik
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