Colin Tennyson <[email protected]> writes:
> My thinking was focused on the following kind of pattern:
> The variable 'global' is called 4 times:
>
> global = {
> \key a \minor
> \time 4/2
> }
>
> Level of indirection; you declare the key in a single place, and the
> compiler retrieves it there 4 times.
> My underlying vague hope was that something along those lines would be
> available for transposition too.
>
>
>
> I had tried:
>
> \transpose c' a {
> \score { ... }
> }
>
> Which doesn't work.
>
> My error was that on that negative result alone I jumped to the conclusion
> that \transpose cannot be used on any grouping, that it can only be used on
> otherwise uninterrupted sections.
Well, you can use
targetpitch = a
at the top and then write something like
\transpose c' \targetpitch { ... }
once or repeatedly in the body. Requires at least 2.15.30 at least.
--
David Kastrup
_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
