Re: clef and transposition

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Hello,
> 
> Mhh. I've read the following in the manual:
> "By adding _8 or ^8 to the clef name, the clef is transposed one octave down 
> or up, respectively."
> 
> I've tried to do this (... \clef violin_8 ...) but I got a parse error 
> message. Maybe I'm a little bit stupid or so but what was my mistake? :-)

I would rather blame the manual than your attempt to interprete it. 
The problem is that within a \notes section, the front-end of 
Lilypond treats underscores a bit special. Therefore, you have to 
add quotes:
\clef "violin_8"
to make it work.

   /Mats