Re: Octave shifts in polyphonic setting

[David Kastrup]

Jogchum Reitsma <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> When entering a piece of music with some one-, some two- and some
> three-voiced bars, quite often notes in previous bars go up or down an
> octave, when entering new bars.
> Restoring this from the first bars affected by adding or deleting
> apostrophes or comma's, sometimes lead again to side effects. Rather
> frustrating...
>
> Is there a way to prevent this?

Use \fixed note entry instead of \relative .  It stops the notes being
dependent on one another.

-- 
David Kastrup