but if you replace the flats by sharps and put the most left one to the right, it will collaps with the upper one
Andre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Mondrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "TeX-Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [TeX-music] Accidental bugfix in PMX > Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote: > > It is very easy to work with it because of the tweak possibilities. > > I tried a sharp on the upper note of the last chord, with stem down. It collapsed > > a little bit with > > the b. > > then i tweaked 3 accidentals. > > This is the way it should go? > > well - not quite according to Gardner Read in his 'Music Notation' 2nd ed., > Boston 1969. On page 134 there is a series of examples on placement of > accidentals in chords alonq with some comments on rules and guidelines for > placement of accidentals. None of these examples, some of them being > comparable to the below example, have the accidentals cascading leftwards > from the top like in chord 2 and 3 below. Among the main principles is to > have as few accidental 'columns' as possible. > > Generally I recommend Gardner Read's book (evaluated as _the_ standard in > the Lilypond engraving bibliography). Unfortunately it is out of print and > must be purchased second hand. I managed to do so a few months ago. _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
