> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kastrup [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:19 PM
> To: Daniel Rosen
> Cc: Eluze; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Automatic octaves
>
> Daniel Rosen <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David Kastrup [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 11:31 AM
> >> To: Daniel Rosen
> >> Cc: Eluze; [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: Automatic octaves
> >>
> >> You could use dak's most elegant make-relative macro...
> >>
> >> myoctavate =
> >> #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)
> >> (make-relative (music) music
> >> #{ \context Bottom << $music \transpose c c' $music >> #}))
> >>
> >> \relative { \myoctavate { a b c d } e f g a }
> >
> > That gets me the attached output.
>
> Sick. But you'll get something similar with \relative { { << { a b c d } >>
> } e f g a
> }
>
> The \context Bottom helps to avoid the effect in the macro itself but does
> not manage to extent its effect beyond itself. I don't have anything to offer
> that would work better, so you just have to use explicit contexts, like
>
>
> \relative \new Voice { \myoctavate { a b c d } e f g a }
>
>
> --
> David Kastrup
Kieren's solution worked fine:
\version "2.18.0"
myoctavate =
#(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)
#{ \context Bottom << $music \transpose c c' \relative $music >> #})
\relative { \myoctavate { a b c d } e f g a }
DR
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