On p. 125 of my Gardner Read (1964), it says: "To cancel the double flat and restore the original single flat, it was formerly required—as cited in the rules on page 123—to write a natural sign plus the single flat. Today the tendency is to use merely the single flat-sign without the natural. It may be less academic, but its meaning is perfectly clear, and it is simpler to write."
Cheers, Nick 2011/6/11 Marc Mouries <m...@mouries.net>: > > > 2011/6/11 Janek Warchoł <lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com> >> >> > >> > I've looked at Ted Ross, Kurt Stone, Gardner Read and Elaine Gould and >> > can't >> > find any explicit mention of this. >> >> AFAIK this was a common practice in XIXth century engraving (a period >> that LilyPond tries to mimic), but it is considered now obsolete, at >> least by some people >> (http://icking-music-archive.org/lists/sottisier/sottieng.pdf page 6). >> >> HTH, >> Janek > > > thanks for the link that's really interesting. I know that Lilypond's goal > is to produce score similar to manual hand-graved scores but should lilypond > try to mimic obsolete XIXth century engraving rules? > > > Would it be useful to the lilypond community to generate a lilypond version > of the excerpt in the referenced document "Essay on the true art of music > engraving"? > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
