Comment #6 on issue 4387 by [email protected]: Patch: Let \relative work
on \transpose content as if it were untransposed
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4387
motif = { c4 e g c b a g a }
\relative c' { \motif \transpose c g' \motif }
Well, that usage is plainly asking for trouble. For a "motif", it does
not really make sense not to be in absolute mode already, whether by
[i.e., A motif should be locked into absolute pitches by]
applying \relative, \absolute, or whatever, directly at the place of
assignment.
Yes, if by 'absolute mode' you mean note the mode of input, but the
condition that the octaves have been fixed, that is, no longer subject to
the effects of \relative {}.
The actual LilyPond input from mutopiaproject used the form
\relative c' { \transpose c c' \motif \transpose c g' \motif }
I did say that "It is a bit of an inconvenience that \relative skips over
\transpose," but I was only thinking of the inconvenience of remembering an
exception to its behavior (and of reading that point in the documentation
every time I forgot how \relative worked).
I cannot now imagine a case where having \relative work continuously
through the contents of a \transpose would help anyone write music.
Regarding \dislayLilyMusic, I have used it only to transpose Lilypond input
so I could re-work it to fit another instrument. Can you imagine any use
where it would help to record the fact that the music was transposed ? In
realistic cases the extra {} braces mark a transposed section.
\displayLilyMusic {c d e \transpose c d { c d e } }
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