>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Currently, the abc2midi transposer only understands the key
>>> signature. So if I have a piece in D dorian, and I transpose
>>> it up 3 half notes, the transposed output is in Ab. It should
>>> be in F dorian.
>> This is an inevitable consequence of using tonic/mode in the K: command.
Jack> It's not inevitable because BarFly gets it right (and always has done
Jack> from the earliest version I used). Mode is preserved under transposition.
Jack> It's a source-to-source transformation so it's hardly rocket science to
Jack> preserve it.
Jack> I don't quite see how this matters to abc2midi. MIDI doesn't have any
Jack> concept of mode, does it?
I should have said abc2abc, which comes in the same package as
abc2midi, and is what I used to use for transposition. I now use the
lilypond \transpose function.
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