Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
I have a song.ly file which prints a song. Is it possible for someone to print the song with a transposition, say c to d, without editing the .ly file? Something like: \transpose c d {\include song.ly} ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Malte Meyn
You can do something like the following and move the “foo = …” into song.ly: \version 2.19.13 foo = \new Score { { c' d' e' f' } } { \foo } \transpose c d \foo Am 05.10.2014 um 10:03 schrieb Jay Vara: I have a song.ly file which prints a song. Is it possible for someone to print

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Urs Liska
Not directly. You should somehiw pull the music variables out of song.ly and compile a second file. Or you use version control and either create a transposed branch or simply edit, compile and discard the transposition. HTH Urs Am 5. Oktober 2014 10:03:29 MESZ, schrieb Jay Vara

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 05.10.2014 um 10:03 schrieb Jay Vara: I have a song.ly file which prints a song. Is it possible for someone to print the song with a transposition, say c to d, without editing the .ly file? Something like: \transpose c d {\include song.ly} I had a similar problem some time ago. I included

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Urs Liska
Am 5. Oktober 2014 11:18:42 MESZ, schrieb Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Am 05.10.2014 um 10:03 schrieb Jay Vara: I have a song.ly file which prints a song. Is it possible for someone to print the song with a transposition, say c to d, without editing the .ly file? Something like: \transpose c

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Richard Shann
On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 11:27 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 5. Oktober 2014 11:18:42 MESZ, schrieb Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de: Am 05.10.2014 um 10:03 schrieb Jay Vara: I have a song.ly file which prints a song. Is it possible for someone to print the song with a transposition, say c to d,

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
Marc #(define transposeTo (if (defined? 'transposeTo) transposeTo #{ c #})) melody = { ... } chords = {... } \score { \transpose c $transposeTo ...chords ... ...melody ... } Then you simply make a new file song-in-d.ly:

Re: Transpose a lilypond file

2014-10-05 Thread Jay Vara
Urs #(define transposeTo #{ d #}) \include song.ly Cool solution, I'll take this into my repertoire. You can then factor out the function into a library file. And you could pass the variable on the commandline instead of adding a new file. Being able to call from the command