Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

[David Wright]

On Wed 13 May 2020 at 14:59:10 (+0100), Paul McKay wrote:

> If I'm writing music in F, then I suggest that I be able to use *bF*  as a
> pitch instead of *bf*. The *F* would indicate that all subsequent *b*s
> would be flattened until one is encountered with a different accidental or
> until the end of the current music expression. It should have the same
> scope as \stemUp or similar.

The problem with that is that to find out what any particular "b"
represents, you have to search backwards, note-by-note, looking for
any such modification that might have been made to a "b" earlier.

Any copy-and-paste manipulations become potential nightmares.

Cheers,
David.