On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:08:07PM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > Am Mo., 11. Nov. 2019 um 21:38 Uhr schrieb Sandro Santilli <s...@kbt.io>: > > > > I transcribed an A major song with this chords snippet: > > > > ees:m7.5- | aes:7 | aes:m7.5- | des:7 | > > > > When transposing it to Eb major it is rendered as: > > > > Bbbø | Ebb7 | Ebb7sus#4 b3 | Abb7
> If you transpose the note eeses down an augmented 4th the note beseses > results. I did not transpose eeses, but ees. > If you let the chords display in \new Staff you get a warning: > 2.18.2: > warning: Transposing eeses'' by ges makes alteration larger than double Indeed I do get that warning, but I was not transposing eeses ?? Where does 'eeses' come from ? > To circumvent, you could do \transpose a dis instead. Yup, this one fixes the warning and the weird rendering. Still uses double-alterations (double-sharps) but that's a separate issue (does lilypond have any support to automatically simpmlify those notes and/or chords?). > Though, tbh I doubt chords based on ees, aes, des _in_ a-major are > correct at all. > Probably some modulation/key-change before? Or copy from a weird source? It's "The Shadow Of Your Smile" from the Real Book. I'm not sure what's going on there, harmonically. --strk;