On 27-Jul-05, at 4:30 PM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
I'm not subscribed to lilypond-developer, so you might like to forward
this as appropriate.
You can send stuff to lilypond-devel as a non-member; we CC emails to
individuals, so you can also take part in the discussion.
I would find the \displayLilyMusic useful as an external utility. Most
of my serious typesetting involves transposing instruments, and I
frequently need to have subtle differences between different
instruments playing similar parts. For example, a trumpet and a horn
may have essentially the same harmony line, but one instrument may
have to change octave part way through, depending on how I have scored
the piece. Or there may be some instrument specific instructions that
need to be added on one part. This is very difficult to do without
manually typing each part separately.
You can get around this problem by using \transpose, \transposition, and
copying.
(not that \displayLilyMusic isn't useful; see below)