Relative mode

[darius]

Hi everybody, 

I've been using Lilypond for a couple of years now, 
but this is the first time I use this mailing list. 
I tried to see if anyone wrote something about my issue, 
I have not found anything relevant, but please excuse me 
if I just did not look well enough, and this happens to 
be the 200th thread about this issue. 

It's about relative mode. I continuously compute intervals 
to see whether the next note is going to be the upper or the lower one, 
I write 

c f g a 

when I intent 

c f, g a 

so I spend quite some time checking the output and correcting such 
mistakes in large and complex scores. 

Wouldn't it be useful to have a notation to say "the closest f downwards" 
or the "closest a upwards" rather than having to compute intervals and to 
see whether the comma/quote is required or not ? A way of using the 
relative mode by giving the direction explicitly rather than making 
it implicit by the distance from the last note. 

Am I the only one with this (minor) frustration ? Is there something 
that does exactly what I have in mind, and which I never found ? 

Cheers, 

Darius. 







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