Re: In octaves

[Jonathan Kulp]

Ok, so if I wanted to have both options available, how would I do the 
scheme code to define, say, "octavesUp = " and "octavesDown = ".  I see 
from Valentin's tip how to change it so that \octaves will be either up 
down, but it would be great to be able to do both.  Either that, or for 
the \relative stuff to work.  I sent a message to the list with examples 
of what happened when I tried using a , or ' with the \octaves command 
but I think the message got blocked somehow (it hasn't shown up in my 
box anyway). Thanks guys,

Jon

Valentin Villenave wrote:
> Hi Jonathan, hi Jay,
>
> Jonathan: you need to add notes an octave lower than your voice: just
> replace 1+ with 1- in the Scheme code.
>
> Jay: actually, your code has one major downside: is doesn't handle
> \relative mode very well. As soon as you add a comma or a single quote
> to one of the pitches in the melody, the octaves go crazy.
> Perhaps this is only a problem of ordering the elements in the
> octavize-chord function, but I suspect it's worse than that.
>
> It works very well in absolute pitches mode, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Valentin

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