Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

[Mats Bengtsson]

I don't really understand what you mean by input and output sections.
You can do any any of the following:

music={c d e f}
\score{
  \transpose c bes \music
}

music=\transpose c bes {c d e f}
\score{
  \music
}

\score{
  \transpose c bes {c d e f}
}

as well as

\music={\transposition bes c d e f}
\score{
  \music
}

\music={c d e f}
\score{
  {\transposition bes \music}
}


As far as I understand, the point of \transposition is that you can make
a printed version of the music and a MIDI version of the same music
without having to make two separate \score{...} sections (one with
\transpose and one without). In other words, \transposition solves
a completely different problem than \transpose. Of course, if this is
unclear in the documentation, it should be improved.

   /Mats


address@hidden wrote:
> Oops ... my bad here ... I've just seen the sentence about MIDI output and how 
> it doesn't affect printing.
>
> But I would still respectfully suggest that it *should* affect printing, it 
> seems to me we have here a generic solution being applied over-narrowly to a 
> specific problem.
>
> Let's say I want to enter a Bb part in Bb. If I understand things correctly, I 
> now correct the MIDI output to true pitch by using a \transposition statement 
> in the note *input* section, but I correct the printed output to true pitch by 
> using a \transpose statement in the *output* section. That doesn't make sense 
> to me :-(
>
>
> > So - can I respectfully suggest we have a big bug here - either in the manual 
> > or in the implementation of transposition. And imho the bug should be in the 
> > implementation - by changing the implementation we don't change the current 
> > functionality as seen by the user, but we do make the manual correct, and we 
> > make the behaviour of transposition both more consistent and more powerful.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Wol
> >
> >
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