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Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?


From: Chip
Subject: Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 20:05:47 -0700
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Chip wrote:
I've come across this a couple times - when I am inputting a song it all works fine in \relative mode. I do some editing, some copy/paste from one part to another, view the resulting pdf and see the octaves are all messed up. The only way to fix them is to use absolute octave marks in small sections, usually only a few measures, to get the song to print correctly. Then for whatever reason, after those few measures the rest of the song is just fine. This seems to be completely random, has happened in a couple different songs, in different versions of lilypond.
Has anyone seen this kind of behavior? Just seems rather odd.
--
Chip
I found the problem - I had the \relative c and the \transpose ef f bits seperated like this -

bari = \transpose f ef {
e4-- e8-- e8-- e4-. r
... stuff
}
barisax = \relative c' {
 \global
 \set Staff.instrumentName = #"Bari Sax"
 \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"Bari"
 \clef treble
<< \bari >> %I've been told I don't need the << >> here in this usage but without them I get errors
}

After I moved the \relative c' up to the same line as the \transpose the octave problems were fixed. It appears that the two have to be together, not seperated like I had them.
--
Chip




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