Re: \relative issue

[Paul Scott]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > In light of this suprising you and the idea that relative means
> > > relative to something I might suggest that there be no default and
> > > that not specifying a starting point be an error.
> >
> > Yep.
The following responses are not necessary to try to convince you of 
anything since I will probably continue to use
"\relative <pitch> { ... }" since it seems mostly logical to me to 
always define what I want my notes to be relative to.  I would think 
that restoring the default to middle C would be reasonable.
> This is what it used to be, and it annoyed us that we had to type " c' 
> " all the time for no obvious reason. 
Seems obvious to me.
> If there were a clean way in which we could also make \relative the 
> default, we'd do it in a heartbeat. 
Relative to what?  One would then often have to use the first pitch or 
the new relativeoctave or whatever it is to get to the desired octave.
> Regarding the default: I agree that c has a nice theoretical 
> rationale, otoh, middle C isn't middle for nothing, so it is a good 
> default as well.
Agreed.

I will comment that my style frequently leads to having to fix octaves 
when I take a chunk of music out of one block to make it a macro.  I 
haven't thought of a way around that.

Paul