Re: strange behaviour of transpose

[Mats Bengtsson]

You didn't include the full example. It isn't by chance so that
the original code used the \relative feature?

  /Mats

Quoting Martin Cassell <address@hidden>:

> Perhaps as a newcomer I'm missing something, but this looks like a bug to me:
>
> I was experimenting with a .ly file produced by musiccvt, in which a 
> vocal line
> with a treble-8 clef had been pitched an octave too high (leger lines 
> that would
> frighten a countertenor, let alone a baritone!).
>
> > From the documentation, the solution seemed straightforward:
>
>    \transpose a' a { ... }     % or similar
>
> The outcome was unexpected: first note unchanged, remainder 
> transposed down by
> two octaves.
>
> Speculatively, I tried a variation:
>
>    \transpose a a { ... }   % shouldn't this leave the pitch unchanged?
>
> The outcome was, at least, consistent with my first attempt: first 
> note raised
> by an octave, remainder lowered by an octave.
>
>
> /mpc
>
>
>
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