Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by address@hidden)

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> most of this has been discussed already:
>
>>   So when I'm entering my music in the bass clef I
>> would possibly do something like
>>
>>     \absolute -1 { c d' e' b }
> Using a number as the first optional argument was discussed already.

Yes and no.  It was the original proposal.  It is not uncommon to have a
wildly diverging discussion and finally settle back on the original
proposal again.  But I'm not convinced that this was the case here.

Personally, I don't like mathematics in note input too much.

>> which simply shifts everything down one octave. That then also saves any
>> explanation about what [obligatory pitch] means. Does it have to be a
>> new reference C? What happens if you said, for example, e'? Does that
>> get understood by lily as c' - shift everything an octave? Or does it
>> mean "the note above e' absolute is entered as f', the note below is
>> entered as d"? Specifying the shift as a number makes it clear that it's
>> relative to the default c', and that's it.

> We had all this already.

Indeed.  It might help to read the original Rietveld discussion.

> It would be a mess to allow for notes other than c, so we definitely
> won’t be doing that.

At least we will not move the octave break around.

> I’m not sure why using a number wasn’t really considered,
> though. Probably for analogy to the other music entry modes?

That's part of it.

-- 
David Kastrup