Re: absolute mode was Relative mode

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Sunday 26 October 2003 01:18 am, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:24:00 +0200
>
> Aaron <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I tried the \transpose c c' and feel that I am missing something.
> >
> > a c major scale c d e f g a b c should not force any octave jumps
> > if you think about it logically. As long as we know it is absolutly
> > within a set octave there should be no jumps. Only greater than
> > that octave would the notes need a different symbol.
>
> You mean "only greater than a seventh", not "only greater than an
> octave". What does your second "c" in the major scale mean?  Is that
> the low c or the high c?  A human assumes that the second c is the
> high c, but a computer needs some way to be told that.  Relative mode
> lets you input a scale as c d e f g a b c
> and absolute mode lets you input the same scale as
> c d e f g a b c'
>
> > The point for me is that if I know the range of a peice I should be
> > able to hard code that into a peice so that I shouldn't need to
> > indicate changes unless they exceed that range.
>
> What if a song uses two octaves?  How are you going to indicate which
> c you want?
>
> Although the ' and , marks may be confusing at first, there isn't any
> method of avoiding them.  The best we can do is to minimize their
> use, by picking the appropiate input method (be it absolute,
> relative, or David's new method).

Please, I don't propose any new methods, only an anchor and a short 
cut.

c4,  for c,,,,
and fis:' for }\relative c'{ fis   (is that's right?)

are suggested as enhancements to the old modes and to Mats' new mode, 
as additions not changes.  I think that it would be a very bad idea to
remove c,,,, or \relative [a-g].    daveA

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