On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:20:53AM +0000, Jon wrote: > Hi there guys, > > I've been writing out a part for B-flat sax. I've written out the music in > concert pitch and so am using \transpose to display it in the right key for > the > B-flat sax. The part I'm writing is in E-major when in concert pitch, so this > becomes G-flat-major when transposed for the B-flat instrument. > > The problem I'm having is that Lilypond is choosing to use double flats for a > number of particular notes when it prints out the B-flat part. For example, > if > I write a G or an F in the concert part (which is in E-major) these get > written > out as B-doubleflat and A-doubleflat respectively, in the B-flat instrument > part, instead of as A-natural and G-natural, which would be easier to read in > my opinion. >
The other option would be to transpose the piece into F-sharp major, which would (I presume) get rid of the double accidentals and be more (technically) correct. However, there seems to be a (rather complex) way to do it: have a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/source/input/lsr/scheme/lily-0934c4d641.ly for clues (I haven't had a good look at this, but I think it does whayt you're after.) Hope this helps! -- ============================================= Cameron Horsburgh ============================================= _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
