Re: difficulty getting quoteDuring to work in combination with transposition

[Malte Meyn]

Am 03.08.2015 um 00:29 schrieb user3871075:
> Malte - I understand that only doing transposition at the score level would
> work.  However, I'm entering some music from printed instrument parts so
> I'd much prefer to enter them "as is" instead of have to transpose in my
> head.

Ok, I misunderstood this (I thought you wanted to enter all music in 
sounding pitch).

You can do the following: Enter written pitches and transpose them to 
sounding pitches. Store that in trumpet/clarinet/altoSaxNotes.

Now use this sounding music to build the score. Use the transpose and 
transposition in the score to get back to written pitches and correct 
quotes.

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\version "2.18.2"

trumpetNotes = \transpose c' bes \relative c'' {
  c4 c c c
}
\addQuote "trumpet" \trumpetNotes

clarinetNotes = \transpose c' bes \relative c'' {
  g4
  \quoteDuring #"trumpet" { s }
  g g |
}

altoSaxNotes = \clarinetNotes

<<
  \new Staff \with {
    instrumentName = "trumpet"
  } \transpose bes c' {
    \transposition bes
    \trumpetNotes
  }
  \new Staff \with {
    instrumentName = "clarinet"
  } \transpose bes c' {
    \transposition bes
    \clarinetNotes
  }
  \new Staff \with {
    instrumentName = "alto sax"
  } \transpose ees c' {
    \transposition ees
    \altoSaxNotes
  }
>>

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> And
> I'll keep in mind that the '#' and "" are optional for \quoteDuring.  I
> typically just copy/paste examples from the documentation.

The safe way is to use at least "" and sometimes even # is necessary, 
but lilypond is flexible and sometimes it’s less to type if you leave 
them out. So if you know what you do it’s fine ;)

For example,
        instrumentName = trumpet
will do the same as
        instrumentName = "trumpet"
but
        instrumentName = bes
will fail because ‘bes’ is recognized as a pitch name and not as a string.

And
        \tweak #'font-size 4
will do the same as
        \tweak #'font-size #4
but in a \markup you need the # and
        \font-size 4
will fail.