Re: Is there a short way of forcing a particular octave?

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi again,

>> I find \relative mode quite helpful in orchestral works because it lends
>> itself very well to copy-n-paste octave doublings. Trying to do that in
>> absolute mode and needing to edit tens of 's and ,s after you copy a
>> line that needs to be transposed by an octave is quite painful.
> 
> \fixed or \transpose is what I use if I’m copying-and-pasting orchestral 
> doublings: no editing of ’s or ,s needed!
> For exact doublings, I use the quoting mechanism, of course!

And, of course, Frescobaldi’s transpose function(s) are wonderful, if you want 
to make the change “permanently”. In any case, there’s never a need for 
manually editing the octavation of a sequence of notes when reusing code in 
Lilypond.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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