On 21 December 2016 at 23:22, Nathan Ho <
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> I also stopped using \relative a few years ago (I think it was in response to one of your posts here). No regrets here.
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> It's alright for simple monophonic melodies, but it gets in the way when engraving anything with chords or polyphony. Also, if you break your music into sections and assign them to variables, you have to either 1) work out how octaves interact when juxtaposing these sections or 2) use a hybrid of absolute mode for structure and relative mode for note entry.
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> The main downside to absolute mode is that wrapping stretches of music in \transpose is inconvenient, creating distracting structures in the code that don't reflect the music. As an example, try typesetting a line that ascends over several octaves without an abundance of apostrophes and commas in the source.
Any experience using extensively \resetRelativeOctave ? For instance creating a short alias like "\rt" and specify it at the beginning of each measure?