Re: Auto-transposition

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On 15/12/17 06:20, Saul Tobin wrote:
> Relative mode makes perfect sense if you're entering music that cares
> mainly about the relationship between notes within a phrase (i.e. most
> music). IMO absolute mode might be easier from the perspective of the
> software, but it's not how most musicians think, and that's
> important. Maybe the documentation could do a better job explaining the
> semantics of relative mode and when to use \resetRelativeOctave?
> 
> I take exception to the idea that relative mode ought to be deprecated.
> I've been using exclusively relative mode to compose for almost ten
> years, and I think it's great.

I think Han-Wen actually wrote \resetRelativeOctave for me :-)

But if you don't understand relative then it will mess you up.

Does anybody (not me :-) want to write a little update for the docu that
will make both relative mode and \resetRelativeOctave (hopefully) clear?

It originated when I was (iirc) transcribing Chattanooga Choo-Choo, and
there's a repeated phrase, so I thought I'd define it as a variable.
OOOPPSS! The starting and ending notes are a fifth or more apart, and
the phrase repeats with nothing else in-between. The resulting staircase
was spectacular!

If somebody would care to take that as hint for putting an example in
the docu, that's fine by me! :-)

Cheers,
Wol