Re: big-picture question regarding Lilypond's capabilities (current and potential)

[David Kastrup]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 16 mars 2013, at 17:17, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>    1. “I would like PDFs for the full score, vocal score, vocal
>> book, and band parts for piano+bass+percussion."
>>    2. "I would like ‘Generosity’ transposed down a tone.”
>>    3. “In the opening number, I would like to cut mm. 101-117, and
>> have mm. 212-213 made into a vamp (i.e., with repeat signs and the
>> word ‘vamp, cont. on vox’ written above).”
>> 
>> This email is to determine to what degree these are possible now, or
>> might be possible in the future.
>> 
>> In particular, I'm interested in #3, since it could more seriously
>> impact the way I organize the input code. (For #1 and #2, it's
>> mostly just figuring out and perfecting the infrastructure for
>> on-demand printing — nontrivial, to be sure, but mostly
>> post-input-code.)
>
> I use tags with absolute note entry for this sorta thing all the time.

Why would you need absolute note entry?  Usually \relative has done its
deed before you excise tags.

-- 
David Kastrup