Re: reminder accidentals

[Benjamin Esham]

On Dec 24, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Ridwan Sami wrote:

> i have this habit of forgetting to play certain notes
> as sharp of flat when a peice has a key signature
> other than c major.
>
> i would manually put in the "!" for accidental
> reminders but there are well over ten-thousand such
> notes in the peices that i am trying to play.
>
> does anyone know of a way to put the "!" at the end of
> notes in an lengthy .ly file quickly so that there are
> no syntax errors?

What text editor are you using?  You (or someone else) could probably 
write
a regular expression to add "!" to all notes with accidentals.  OTOH, 
it might be
easier just to get used to key signatures other than C major :-)

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