Re: Relative mode

[Mats Bengtsson]

I certainly recognize the problem of having to correct a
few octave mistakes when entering a score, but I think the
general idea of relative mode is so intuitive that I don't
have to spend much time and effort while typing in the music.
However, you are certainly not alone, since a new octave check
feature was added in version 2.0 of LilyPond, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Octave-check.html

Do you have any concrete suggestion for how this should be done
otherwise? I guess you still don't want to type c d' e' f' g' a' b' c'
for an ordinary scale, so we would need some other input symbol to
mean "closest upwards" and "closest downwards".

Also, have you tried using absolute mode, i.e. to use
\transpose c c'{...} instead of \relative c'{...}.
Depending on the type of music and your way of thinking,
it may be more convenient. Note that you can change the
"default" octave in the middle of a piece, by starting a
new \transpose ... section.

   /Mats

address@hidden wrote:
> 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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