Re: Auto-transposition

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

On Dec 15, 2017 12:59 AM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Flaming Hakama by Elaine <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> And the behavior of \relative that is weirdest:
>>
>>     * The octave of \relative is lowered when used with bass clef.
>>
>> The fix for the clef issue is to use a \transpose when you use it with bass
>> clef.
>
> That one is nonsense.  \relative does not interact in any way with the
> bass clef.

Best guess: choral music with tenor (injudiciously) written in \clef
"treble" rather than \clef "treble_8" confused your sense of octave.

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David Kastrup

Actually, I think it had to do with midi output for bass clarinet.   The sample I used was not transposed the octave, and I had to compensate by transposing the music down.