On Monday 16 March 2015 11:26:30 David Nalesnik wrote: > Am 16.03.2015 um 15:02 schrieb Michael Schuerig: > > I've only been using LilyPond for a rather short time, so far mostly > for engraving short snippets transposed into several keys for > practicing. Of course, the transpose command works nicely for this. > > However, it made me think of how transposing could be even nicer and > now I'm wishing for a command line option to the lilypond command to > transpose the engraved document by N halftones up or down. The > particular advantage would be that this way the original document > doesn't need to be changed in any way in order to transpose it. > > If you're simply dealing with numbers of semitones, how would you be > able to control whether the output begins on, say, F# versus Gb?
Fair question -- I have no idea. I came up with the semitones so that the direction, up or down, is made explicit instead of left to LilyPond. > I can imagine something which specifies that the music begin on > such-and-such a pitch. For that, you could define a simple music > function--which really isn't saving any effort! My experience with LilyPond is very limited, as I wrote before, but my understanding is that such an approach would not work at the topmost level, i.e. for a book. As such, it could not be used without changing the document and that's exactly the thing I'd like to avoid. Also, that's why I think this is a valid enhancement request for the bug- list instead of the -user list. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user