Re: musica ficta, or how to put small accidentals on top of the notes

[Mats Bengtsson]

Nancho Alvarez wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > One way to handle these accidentals is to use the support for
> > cautionary accidentals in LilyPond. Currently, these can be
> > typeset either as an ordinary accidental within parenthesis or
> > as a smaller size accidental. See
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#accidental-cautionary.ly 
> >
> > for an example. I seem to remember that there was a discussion on the
> > mailing list some years ago where someone planned to introduce yet
> > another style option, namely to print them on top of the note as
> > you propose. However, it seems that this feature was never implemented.
> >
> >    /Mats
>
>
>
> Thank you for your answer, I will follow your recommendation, and I will 
> use cautionary accidentals.
> By the way, the style #'smaller doesn't seem to work.

What LilyPond version do you use? As can be seen at the link given
above, it works in version 2.0.2 at least. If you compare the
accidental of the third beat with the parenthesized accidental of the
fourth beat, it's clearly smaller.

> It would be nice that in the future will be support for a third style to 
> put small cautionaries on top of the notes.

Agreed!

   /Mats