Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th

[chip]

Not everybody has a programmers mind. I don't. I have no interest 
whatsoever in programming. A person should be able to use a piece of 
software without having to be a programmer to do so. If a programming 
degree is necessary to use Lily then it is either a) not complete enough 
for the general public to use, and a warning message to this effect 
should be placed on the web site home page, or b) should be aimed at a 
different audience - programmers/brainiacs.
--
Chip

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 06:30:18PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote:
>   
> > Graham,
> >
> >     
> > > > Great, that helps a lot. I haven't got a clue 
> > > > what scheme is.
> > > >         
> > > In that case, may I courteously extend an 
> > > invitation that you read the bloody Learning 
> > > Manual?
> > >       
> > Please stop the sarcasm and the indecency. If
> > you're trying to be funny, it isn't working.
> >     
>
> It's a continuation of this email:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-11/msg00439.html
>
> If he doesn't know what scheme is, then he clearly *hasn't* read
> the LM cover-to-cover yet.  This means that he's missed some
> terminology, missed some of the possibilities of lilypond, and
> won't be able to communicate with the lilypond community as
> effectively.
>
>   
> > > I leave it as an exercise for the reader. Neil,
> > > Trevor, Valentin: please don't give the answer.
> > >       
> > What are you doing? Are you trying to turn people 
> > away from LilyPond?
> >     
>
> You seem to be unfamiliar with the phrase "an exercise for the
> reader".  The idea is that solving the problem is a useful
> exercise.
>
>   
> > There have been 15 replies to Chip's 
> > original message, and NO ONE has answered it yet.
> > This is embarrassing. If it were as easy to the
> > rest of us as it obviously is to you, someone
> > would have answered it. A user asks a perfectly
> > legitimate question, and the response is, "go
> > figure it out". 
> >     
>
> Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish...
>
>   
> > But what you're doing is the opposite of helpful.
> > So please, stop. Since it's such an elementary
> > exercise, please provide it, now. I assume it'll
> > only take a minute. Then we can all learn.
> >     
>
> 1.  Look at the selected snippets for \transpose.  There's an
> example that's very close to what he wants.
>
> 2.  Look at
>   { \displayMusic { a ais d dis } }
> to get some info about how lilypond treats pitches.  The idea is
> to write a function that translates "a ais" into "d dis".
>
> 3.  Modify the existing example so that instead of producing notes
> with few accidentals, it changes the notename by the desired
> interval.
>
> - Graham
>
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