Re: Automatic octaves

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Rosen <address@hidden> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eluze [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 2:31 PM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: Automatic octaves
>> 
>> instead of this (broken) snippet you could use dak's most elegant and short
>> proposal:
>> 
>> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/quot-Octave-quot-script-in-
>> Frescobaldi-td152801.html#none
>
> That works great when the variable is invoked outside of a \relative
> expression, but not within it. Is there any way to modify the function
> so that it can be used this way?
>
> \version "2.18.0"
> myoctavate =
> #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)
>    #{ \context Bottom << $music \transpose c c' $music >> #})

You could use dak's most elegant make-relative macro...

myoctavate =
#(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)
  (make-relative (music) music
    #{ \context Bottom << $music \transpose c c' $music >> #}))

\relative { \myoctavate { a b c d } e f g a }

-- 
David Kastrup