Re: Something wrong with transposing instruments? (Was: Re: Survey: Large scores)

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Gilles,

>> [...]
>> 
>> Another thing: For me, also the implementation of transposing
>> instruments is less than ideal (I prefer to write the pitches in
>> concert pitch and have them transposed for the parts, rather than the
>> other way around, as it is implemented at the moment).
>> [...]
> 
> Can you give an example?  To my knowledge, both ways of encoding are
> equally simple in LilyPond. [But I perhaps I misunderstood what you
> mean.]

This wasn’t from me… but I wholeheartedly agree: Lily’s default/built-in 
implementation of transposing instruments is rather incomplete/poor (see, for 
example, 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00201.html> and 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-05/msg00067.html> for an 
idea of the problems and workarounds).

I believe there has been some recent improvement via openlilylib, but I haven’t 
had time to investigate

 In any case, the main distro should have much better tools to handle 
transposing instruments more deftly.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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