Ryan Michael <[email protected]> writes:

>> On Monday, April 11, 2016, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Ryan Michael <[email protected] <javascript:;>> writes:
>>>
>>> > Sorry all . I was doing \transpose but on something demarcated as 
>>> > \relative
>>> > c'{}
>>> >
>>> > Which meant it was an octave higher after transposition
>>>
>>> \transpose works fine on the result of \relative.  More likely than not
>>> you are not using \transpose on the result of \relative but rather
>>> \relative on the result of \transpose.  Which would be a bad idea.
>
> Why is that a bad idea?

\transpose delivers absolute music, \relative does not have an effect on
that.

I think that the manual mentions this.

-- 
David Kastrup

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