Re: transpose a score from mutopia

[Gerdau, Michael]

Hi MJ,


> I am trying to transpose a Messiah lilypond file from mutopia: 
> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/HandelGF/HWV56/Messiah/Messiah-lys.zip
> 
> However I'm not getting very far, could use a bit of help....
> 
> Extracting the zip gives a folder structure like:
> 
> 
>     |-common
>     |-Haendel
>     |---Oratorio
>     |-----Messiah
>     |-------AAsinfonia
>     ..... (many more)
>     |-------CGchorus
>     |-------CHairSoprano
>     |-------CIchorus
>     |-------CJchorus
>     |-lilypond-patches
>     |-out
>     |-templates
> 
> So, looking at this, there is a main.ly in ./Haendel/Oratorio/Messiah 
> which I opened in frescobaldi, but I can't compile it, as all the paths 
> in main.ly look like "\include "Haendel/Oratorio/Messiah/common.ily"

The aforementioned include tries to include the file common.ily, which is in the
same folder as the main.ly you are trying to convert.
Given that there is also a directory ./common which hold a couple of other
to-be-included files I'd add the directory that you extracted your ZIP in to
frescobaldi's include paths.

E.g. the absolute path to your main.ly would be
/home/mj/my-lp-scores/from_mutopia/Haendel/Oratorio/Messiah/main.ly
then add "/home/mj/my-lp-scores/from_mutopia/" (or ~/my-lp-scores/from_mutopia/)
to frescobaldi's include paths.

Kind regards,
Michael
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