Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread William Marchant
Hi all, The following two bars of code result in the music correctly written, however, I would like to place a natural symbol on the first note of the second bar, just to remind folks that it is different. I know this is not the convention, but I want to do it anyhow. Is there a way? Bill

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread William Marchant
Thanks to you and Jan-Peter. Bill On 15-02-10 11:16 AM, Kevin Barry wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:13 PM, William Marchant wmarch...@eastlink.ca mailto:wmarch...@eastlink.ca wrote: I would like to place a natural symbol on the first note of the second bar, just to remind folks

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi William, you can use the exclamation or question mark: b! b? or you place a markup as a text script above the note: b^\markup \natural HTH Jan-Peter Am 10.02.2015 um 16:13 schrieb William Marchant: Hi all, The following two bars of code result in the music correctly written, however, I

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread Noeck
As an addition: If you want this behaviour as a general rule (reminder in the next bar), you can use the modern accidental style: \version 2.18.2 \language english { \accidentalStyle modern bf4 bf bf8 bf bf bf | b b b b d4 d | }

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread Kevin Barry
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:13 PM, William Marchant wmarch...@eastlink.ca wrote: I would like to place a natural symbol on the first note of the second bar, just to remind folks that it is different. I know this is not the convention, but I want to do it anyhow. Is there a way? Bill

Re: Putting a natural sign on a note

2015-02-10 Thread David Stephen Grant
Also you may like to look at options for automatic handling of accidentals in the documentation: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#automatic-accidentals Best, David On 10 February 2015 at 16:24, William Marchant wmarch...@eastlink.ca wrote: Thanks to