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 <amc...@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
>
>
