Ah, I see the problem. You were looking at the 2.10 docs, which
are approximately a thousand hours older than the 2.11 docs. As
you might expect from 1,000 hours of work, the 2.11 docs are much
easier to read.
- Graham
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:38:07PM -0700, chip wrote:
> I have read the bloody manuals, all of them. I finally found the part I
> need in the part I skipped over because it didn't apply to my work - 3.4
> An Orchestral Part. I found the code I needed to see by clicking on the
> picture of the score fragment, then I saw that the \transpose was in front
> of the \relative bit. That's all I needed to know, was where to put that
> bloody \transpose. I have yet to find anything anywhere in the docs that
> actually says to do that. In plain print, without having to look at the
> code behind the example fragment. Guess I just don't read between the
> lines enough, or don't make enough assumptions, or am just not experienced
> enough like all you experts who already know it all and don't have to dig
> through 3 or more manuals/references/tutorials/snippets libraries to try
> to figure out something so simple.
> Thanks for pointing me to the correct reference, even though you didn't
> need to be so bloody rude about it.
> --
> Chip
>
> Graham Percival wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:04:47PM -0700, chip wrote:
>
>
> caused by this code -
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ... lots of stuff in the copy/pasted section below ...
> \bar "|."
> }
> \score {
> \new Staff \notes
> \transpose c es, { \relative c' { \clef "bass" \notes } }
> \layout { indent = #0 }
> \midi {}
>
>
> Read the bloody tutorial and LM 3. Particularly the "syntax of a
> lilypond file".
>
> Particularly^2, the "a \score contains a single music expression"
> part.
>
> - Graham
>
>
>
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