"Trevor Daniels" <[email protected]> writes: > Colin Hall wrote Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:12 AM > >> It looks like the behaviour has been explained by David Kastrup here: >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-06/msg00380.html >> >> So, no bug in Lilypond to report then. > > Correct. > >> If either of you, Alexandre or Trevor, would care to create a >> documentation suggestion we'll create a tracker for it. > > OK. There are two points here. The first is that it is not > immediately obvious that the inversion takes place around > from-pitch, and the result is then transposed by the interval > between from-pitch and to-pitch. So simply change the > second sentence to "... first inverted interval by interval about > from-pitch and then ..." > > The second point is to insert a warning that the inversion of a music > expression in absolute notation should not later be relativised. > Maybe say, "The source and inverted music expressions should > both be in absolute notation or both in relative notation." This > is not entirely the whole story, but anything more accurate gets > very convoluted - unless anyone has a better suggestion.
"Both in relative notation" is asking for trouble. I'd strongly suggest only inverting absolute music, and the result of \relative ... _is_ absolute music. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
