On Tuesday, 1 December 1998, Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Thanks!
> >
> > BTW, the music I typeset has many scales.
> > I would like to be able to do something like
> > [c16 ///] [////]
> > which means
> > [c16 d e f] [g a b c]
> > and have it take account of the key, so if we are in E flat
> > it would mean
> > [c16 d es f] ...
> > or
> > [c \\\]
> > for a scale down.
> > Does lilypond have anything like this?
>
> No.
>
> > I thought of writing a perl preprocessor to do it.
Hmm.
What kind of figures would you use, typically?
What about something like:
$fig1 = \notes { [c16 d e f] [g a b c] }
$fig2 = \notes { [c8 b a g] }
[...]
\fig1
\transpose es \$fig1
\fig2
Jan.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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