Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music

[Colin Hall]

Keith OHara writes:

> It took me years to realize that \relative was making LilyPond more difficult
> for me. I very often forget what was the last pitch I typed, especially when
> working on a few music expressions in parallel, and even when I do remember 
> the
> burden of deciding if the interval is a fourth or fifth is distracting.
>
> I use temporary parallel constructions a lot, so the most recent pitch in the
> input is not always the most recent pitch in time.  Re-arrangements of the
> input require re-checking of the intervals at the boundaries.

This is my experience, exactly.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall