Re: confused about transposing from treble clef to bass clef

[Graham Percival]

Ah, I see the problem.  You were looking at the 2.10 docs, which
are approximately a thousand hours older than the 2.11 docs.  As
you might expect from 1,000 hours of work, the 2.11 docs are much
easier to read.

- Graham

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:38:07PM -0700, chip wrote:
>    I have read the bloody manuals, all of them. I finally found the part I
>    need in the part I skipped over because it didn't apply to my work - 3.4
>    An Orchestral Part. I found the code I needed to see by clicking on the
>    picture of the score fragment, then I saw that the \transpose was in front
>    of the \relative bit. That's all I needed to know, was where to put that
>    bloody \transpose. I have yet to find anything anywhere in the docs that
>    actually says to do that. In plain print, without having to look at the
>    code behind the example fragment. Guess I just don't read between the
>    lines enough, or don't make enough assumptions, or am just not experienced
>    enough like all you experts who already know it all and don't have to dig
>    through 3 or more manuals/references/tutorials/snippets libraries to try
>    to figure out something so simple.
>    Thanks for pointing me to the correct reference, even though you didn't
>    need to be so bloody rude about it.
>    --
>    Chip
> 
>    Graham Percival wrote:
> 
>  On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:04:47PM -0700, chip wrote:
>   
> 
>  caused by this code -
>  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  ... lots of stuff in the copy/pasted section below ...
>  \bar "|."
>  }
>      \score {
>         \new Staff \notes
>  \transpose c es, { \relative c' { \clef "bass" \notes } }
>         \layout { indent = #0 }
>         \midi {}
>     
> 
>  Read the bloody tutorial and LM 3.  Particularly the "syntax of a
>  lilypond file".
> 
>  Particularly^2, the "a \score contains a single music expression"
>  part.
> 
>  - Graham
> 
> 
>