Hello, Here's the way I understand it (but I may be wrong, of course).
Imagine you wrote a alto saxophone part, but you notated all in real sounds. You may use the \transpose command this way : \new Staff \transpose c a \mySaxvariable As you may know, alto sax transpose one sixth lower, you must thus raise it by the same interval. But, in relative mode, the distance between c and a would only be a third, not a sixth. So, when you define the transposition interval with two notes, (c and a in this example), they are considered being in absolute mode (sixth interval, here), not in relative mode even if \mySaxvariable contains notes in relative mode. Philippe -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/NR-1.1.2%2C-transpose%3A-obscure-sentence-tp33068532p33070246.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
