Re: convert relative to absolute...

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Julian Peterson <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a project in which I am training a computer to improvise in the
> same style as an example piece of music.
> I wrote a little program in supercollider to take a sequence of
> lilypond notes, learn patterns from them and then generate
> output for lilypond to render into a score.
> The material I would like to feed it is written using /relative , but
> for my script to work I need it to be in absolute pitches.  Is there a
> script or method for doing this?
>
> In other words, I would like to convert:
>
> /relative c'' { c d e f g f e d c g c g c}
> to
> {c'' d'' e'' f'' g'' f'' e'' d'' c'' g' c'' g' c''}
>
> Any ideas?

Try \displayLilyMusic or a text editor capable of doing such a
conversion (eg. Emacs). If the output of \displayLilyMusic is
incorrect, please file a bug report.

nicolas