Re: avoid slur help

[James E. Bailey]

Am 26.12.2008 um 17:57 schrieb Graham Percival:

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:50:46PM +0100, Eyolf ?strem wrote:
> > On 26.12.2008 (15:06), Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > > If so then I'd just use d!4. instead.
> > >
> > > No, it was common practice to put accidentals above notes in  
> > > older times.
> > > Sometimes these were meant to be optional, sometimes they were  
> > > cautinary
> > > accidentals. In any case, if you try to be close to the source,  
> > > you should
> > > write it above the note and not as d!4.
> >
> > Slight correction: it is customary in modern editions to put  
> > editorial
> > accidentals above the note. They are not optional, but frequently  
> > left to
> > the performer to apply, according to more or less strict rules  
> > (see "Musica
> > ficta" in the docs).
>
> Thanks, Eyolf.  I was going to post something very sarcastic.  :)
> No, wait -- I'm going to do that anyway.  *ahem*
>
> To everybody apart from Eyolf who posted in this thread: musica
> ficta can be found through a "see also" link under NR 1.1
> Accidentals,

Perhaps you have a different version of the manual, but I don't see  
Accidentals under NR 1.1. I see Writing pitches, Changing multiple  
pitches, Displaying pitches and Note heads. Or were you talking about  
the 2.10 documentation? (Where I, incidentally, don't see a link to  
musica ficta.)

> directly in NR 2.8.3 Annotational accidentals (musica
> ficta), or in NR appendix F index.

Ah, I do see the musica ficta there, and, seeing as how you didn't  
provide an example, I am left to my own devices to solve a problem  
that I thought I said I was having difficulty solving. However, using  
the \set suggestAccidentals, which is all I can assume you meant to  
tell me about, I come to the conclusion of:
\version "2.11.65"
\relative c'' {
   \override TextScript #'avoid-slur = #'inside
   <<{c2(} \new Voice { s4 \hideNotes \once \set suggestAccidentals  
= ##t cis4^\turn \unHideNotes}>> d4.) c8
}
which still doesn't have everything under the slur. So, Graham, while  
I thank you for your attempt, I find your help, without examples,  
rather unhelpful.