Re: Auto-transposition

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David,

> This is, in part, a result of our documentation being so granular.

True.

> Putting it another way: I doubt that many of the issues with \relative rear 
> their heads in the examples in the docs. 

So true. And thus newbies aren't really [explicitly] taught how to use relative 
mode correctly (e.g., “as early as possible”), so when they start to engrave 
anything more complex than the simple doc examples, they run into problems 
(hence all the questions posted to the list).

> A discussion of the pros and cons of each method with examples could be 
> appropriate in perhaps the LM, or in 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches

Agreed.

Best,
Kieren.
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