Re: non-relative relative mode?

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 26 February 2004 11.29, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> I assume that you mean \transpose and nothing else.
> Of course, this is one good approach to avoid having to
> type all the ' and ,. However, I still recommend you to
> give the \relative another try. I think most people on this
> list agree that it's very convenient once you get used to it.
> The basic idea is very simple, as long as the melody only
> includes intervals that are not larger than a fourth, you don't
> need any ' or ,. For all larger intervals, you add 's or ,s to
> get to the correct octave.

I can however imagine that some things can be simpler to typeset with absolute 
mode, e.g. if there is a lot of chords and not so much melodic lines. This 
can be the case in some piano music.

Erik