Re: Problems with \inversion

[Colin Hall]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:31:34PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> 
> ALEXANDRE FICAGNA wrote Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:57 PM
> 
> 
> >I still didn't picture exactly how \inverse works in its from-pitch
> > to-pitch variables, but I tried an example and what I got is the
> > correct inversion of pitches, but each one was an octave above.
> > 
> 
> If you use \relative for melody, \inversion behaves more as you
> would expect.  Either there is a bug which causes the incorrect
> behaviour you see when given absolute notes or the documentation
> needs to explain this better.  Note though that \inversion will
> also transpose if from-pitch and to-pitch differ.
> 
> Copied to bug list for further discussion.

It looks like the behaviour has been explained by David Kastrup here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-06/msg00380.html

So, no bug in Lilypond to report then.

If either of you, Alexandre or Trevor, would care to create a documentation 
suggestion we'll create a tracker for it.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall