Re: Piano accidentals don't work in a GrandStaff

[Yuval Harel]

On Sun, 2 May 2004 23:01:42 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The Notation Manual page on Accidentals
> > ( 
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Accidentals.html#Accidentals)
> > reads:
> > ---SNIP---
> >         piano
> >                 This rule reflects 20th century practice for piano notation. 
> > Very
> > similar to modern but accidentals also get canceled across the staves in
> > the same GrandStaff or PianoStaff.
> > ---SNIP---
>
> This is IMO a bug in the doco. This should only work for PianoStaff.

Why should it not work in a GrandStaff?
It seems to be useful in contexts other than piano music.
Also, the way I get it from the documentation, piano music can be written 
in a
GrandStaff if you don't need cross-staff beaming, and that way you get 
automatic
spacing between the staffs.

Yuval