Re: Transposing and coda-scripts

[Mats Bengtsson]

Jan Kohnert wrote:
> I have two questions about my brandnew upgraded lily 2.0.1:
>
> 1. The "(music (scripts-coda))" doesn't seem to work anymore.
> I used it for writing "D.S. al {CODA-SYMBOL}" above the staff. and now I don't 
> get the symbol but some numbers above the staff...

If convert-ly doesn't convert this automatically, then that's a bug
in my opinion.

You can read about the new support for text markups at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Text-markup.html
What you probably want is

-\markup{ \musicglyph "scripts-coda" }


> 2. Sometime ago I saw in the manual, that is was possible to transpose 
> instruments using the {8 v.a.-SYMBOL} in the staff, but I don't find this 
> anymore. Could you give me a hint?

In the index of the reference manual, you will find an entry on "ottava".


    /Mats