Re: a script / tool for transposing a lilypond staff / source file by a given interval and output result as a new file

[James E. Bailey]

Am 07.09.2008 um 09:40 schrieb Daryna Baikadamova:
> So do you mean that I should leave the original score alone (i.e.  
> *not* to create a concert pitch version of the part by using  
> \displayLilyMusic \transpose) and in the driver lilypond file that  
> uses the score to print the separate part, I use:
>
> \transpose old_transpose_key new_transpose_key
>
> to output the part with the desired pitch?

Exactly. It seems to me to be the easiest. The only reason I would  
think re-entering the original score in concert pitch is if you're  
correcting errors in it, and your source copy is a transposed score.  
Otherwise, that's why \transpose exists.