Re: Transposing pitches in the lilypond file itself?

[Alasdair McAndrew]

Thanks, Guy.

I use the Linux Emacs editor (which has a lilypond mode), and there might be something there, but I was just after a little advice - I have used Frescobaldi, but for me Emacs is faster and more efficient.  

cheers,

Alasdair

On Wednesday 12 January 2022 16:03:58 (+11:00), Guy Stalnaker wrote:

Alasdair,

Though it may not match your use, Frescobaldi, the LilyPond Editor, can do this using one of its built-in features. In essence you specify the interval to transpose when selecting the feature, e.g., "c d" would transpose up a major 2nd.

Many on this list use other editors, but personally I cannot imagine writing Lilypond without Frescobaldi given its features. For your purpose, it might be worth an install simply to use the transpose feature?

If there are other ways of doing this in other editors, I'm sure list subscribers will chime in.

Regards

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On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:27 PM Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not quite sure how to search online for this, hence my asking here. 
I'm doing a little bit of arranging of some baroque pieces for specific
instruments, which usually requires some transposition.  I can transpose
within the lilypond file so that the output score has the correct
(transposed) notes, but what I really want is to have the transposed notes
in the lilypond file itself.  This means I can print out the score without
needing to transpose anything.  So basically I want to change an input
from, say
\transpose c,f {c d e f}

to simply

{f g a bf}

In other words, I want the transposition in the file itself, not just in
the typeset output.  Is there a way of doing this - maybe with an external
command (I'm using Linux)?   

Thank you very much,
Alasdair 

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