On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 16:29 -0700, Eric Benson wrote:
> I would like to add a footnote at the bottom of a score, something
> like
>
> The F note in measure 29 is sometimes sung as G instead.
>
> However, the score is often transposed to a different key, so I don't
> want to "hard-code" the note name in the footnote. I would like it to
> be transposed to the correct key. For example, in this case the score
> is written in Ab, but it is transposed to Eb, so the footnote
> should read
>
> The C note in measure 29 is sometimes sung as D instead.
>
> Is there a simple way to do this with LilyPond?
FWIW this is how Denemo does it:
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\version "2.25.18"
#(define DenemoTransposeStep 4)
#(define DenemoTransposeAccidental 0)
DenemoGlobalTranspose = #(define-music-function (parser location
arg)(ly:music?) #{\transpose c g#arg #})
\header {
tagline = \markup {\column{\line{\column{\line{\hspace #-0.5 \scale
#'(0.975 . 0.975)\score{
\DenemoGlobalTranspose
\new ChordNames {
\override ChordName.font-name = #'"Times"
c %note-name to insert, in Dutch
}
\layout{indent=0.0}}
}
} Major}
}}
}
\transpose c g
{ c''1 }
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Richard Shann
