Thanks to everyone who responded and explained that Lilypond's behaviour is correct, and that it is possible to use set-accidental-style to get the behaviour I expected. I agree with Janek that the theoretically correct behaviour can be confusing but I understand better now the differences between ties and slurs.
On 24 January 2011 08:54, Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Warchoł" > <lemniskata.bernoulli...@gmail.com> > >> I don't agree. *Theoretically* accidental is not needed, but if it >> would be omitted, how can you tell the difference between aes~ | aes >> and aes( | a) ? >> In my opinion accidental here is necessary (surely it may be >> parenthesized). If it's necessary, it should be printed automatically >> in my opinion. > >> cheers, >> Janek > > If you use > > #(set-accidental-style 'modern-cautionary) > > then you get the parenthesised accidental automatically, as requested. > > > -- > Phil Holmes > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user