Re: Future element?

On 11/02/2011 15:07, René Bjerre Andersen wrote:
> No software in the world can do what I need it to do.
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> I'm a teacher and amateur musician and often I need to have a song
> transposed to a different key e.g. from G-major to D-major. But I have to do
> this manually: find every G-chord and change it to D. This can sometime be a
> bit troublesome as I have to use color-coding. E.g. if I change all G-chords
> in the text below (I'm Moving On - Rascal Flats) I get an intro like this D
> C      D - I can't tell if it's right or I still have to transpose the last
> D-chord to an A...

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There's quite a lot about. Someone else has mentioned lilypond, which 
may be a bit heavy duty. (I'm almost sure there's a gui editor to go 
with this, but can't remember the name offhand.) It might be worth 
looking at abcm2ps, which offers a lighter-duty non-gui approach to 
music typesetting, along with abc2abc which will do transpositions for you.

I know there's a least one 'fake book' program, which will do chord 
transpositions (and even recommend guitar capo position) and output a 
more-or-less usable odf file. There must be others, I'm sure.

If £££ don't matter, there's always the likes of Sibelius!


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Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England