According to musixdoc.pdf, These characters have cumulative effects but in a somewhat restricted sense. They will alter the value of \transpose, but only until changing to a different staff or instrument or encountering \en, at which time it will be reset to the value it had before the accents were used. (That value is stored in another register called \normaltranspose).
In fact, with current musixtex.tex, the effect of these characters will also be undone automatically if used within a { } brace-pair or an \hbox. This would seem to be incorrect behaviour and I'm proposing making the changes to \transpose effected by ` and ' to be "global" and undone only as described in musixdoc. Comments? If anyone wants to test the proposed changes, here they are: \def\@ndstaff{\egroup\transpose\normaltranspose ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \def\xgetn@i : \if '\t@ruc \global\advance\transpose\s@v@n \C@Get \fi \if `\t@ruc \global\advance\transpose-\s@v@n \C@Get \fi ^^^^^^^ Bob T. ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music