Re: Accidental repeated with ottava

[Mark Knoop]

At 10:38 on 10 Feb 2023, Knute Snortum wrote:
> I have run into something in LilyPond that's annoying -- it probably
> doesn't rise to the level of bug.  When you have two notes in
> different octaves but "on the same level" because of an ottava, the
> accidental is repeated.  This makes sense logically because they are
> not the same note, but it doesn't look right to me, at least.  Maybe
> it's the intended behavior?

FWIW, Gould writes:

"Repeat an accidental if sounding at a different octave, even when the
same pitch is used with an octave sign."

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Mark Knoop