Re: lilypond manual intro

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:19:36PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > (I'd also like to have an \absolute keyword so that doc examples
> > using it could be more explicit, but that would need to wait until
> > we have a good way to discuss syntax changes)
> 
> absolute =
> #(define-music-function (parser location m) (ly:music?)
>   #{ \transpose f f $m #})
> 
> \relative c' { c f b \absolute { c' d' e' } c }
> 
> It is not impervious against notename changes (I think I will at some
> point work on the notename language of #{...#} to correspond to the
> language at the time of definition rather than of use), but if required,
> it could be written equivalently in Scheme.

The point isn't to enable nesting of various \relative or
\transpose constructs.  It's to make the notation more explicit.
At a first glance, renaming \sequential to \absolute (or adding a
"symlink" which means that \absolute does the same thing as
\sequential) would achieve the goal.

- Graham