Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Paul Scott 
<address@hidden> writes
> Graham King wrote:
>
> > Try specifying transposition before relative.  The following (not quite
> > minimal) example works for me:
> That's exactly what the 2.4.2 manual says:  If you want to use both 
> |\transpose| and |\relative|, you must put |\transpose| outside of 
> |\relative|, since |\relative| will have no effect music that appears 
> inside a |\transpose|.
Okay. Let's change it.

\version "2.4.0"
voiceTromboneI = \transposition bf \relative c' {
   bf2\ff bf | df df | c df | ef1 | bf2 bf | df df | c df | ef1 |
}

This (a) makes no difference to the notes, and (b) because I do

\score {
   \clef "bass"
   <<
   \voiceMarkup
   \voiceTrombone
   \voiceOtherStuff
   >>
}

just that one little change of moving the "transposition" completely 
screws the layout. So much so that "voiceTrombone" is printed in treble 
clef, and then the clef changes to bass for the rest of the stuff.

I'll have to play and try and work out some more clues as to what is 
going on - I notice that Graham did the equivalent of declaring 
"voiceTromboneBb", and then applying "transposition" to that - I'll have 
to try that ...

Cheers,
Wol
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