Re: Transposing instrument best practice

2019-08-01 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 02:40, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I have practically never had to typeset music for transposing > instruments before, so I have barely any experience with this topic. The > documentation confuses me, since the NR has two sections talking about > transposin

Re: Transposing instrument best practice

2019-07-31 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi, Given the highly confusing nature of the subject, wouldn’t it be better if the NR took a clear stance toward one of the ways as ‘best practice’? Which way would that be? What experiences did you make? (I still dispute the description of the subject as highly confusing, but this may be

Re: Transposing instrument best practice

2019-07-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Dick, please keep communication on-list except if you need to share actual private information. On topic: the question is neither about composing, nor about what’s supposed to appear on the page. This is exclusively about coding style and the implications of what’s ‘behind the scenes’.

Re: Transposing instrument best practice

2019-07-31 Thread karl
Simon: ... > 1.1.3.d recommends entering the notes in ‘written’ pitch and using > \transposition to get correct MIDI, cues and quotes. In ‘See also’, it > links to > > 1.1.2.b, where the recommendation is to enter the notes in concert pitch > and use \transpose to display them in transp

Transposing instrument best practice

2019-07-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello everybody, I have practically never had to typeset music for transposing instruments before, so I have barely any experience with this topic. The documentation confuses me, since the NR has two sections talking about transposing instruments, each giving different advice: 1.1.3.d recomm