Re: Octavecheck?

[Abraham Lee]

I think you are right, Nik. It should go to f' instead, based on the docs.
Looks like a bug to me. CC-ing the bug list.

- Abraham

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Nik Repka [via Lilypond] <
address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm totally new to Lilypond... but while reading the manual, I have become
> seriously confused by the following example of octave check:
>
> \relative c'' {
>   c4 f g f
>
>   c4
>   \octaveCheck c'
>   f
>   \octaveCheck c'
>   g
>   \octaveCheck c'
>   f
> }
>
> I understand why the first and third octave checks fail... but I am
> uncertain why the last f (which appears in the output as the f below c') is
> chosen instead of f'.  According to the manual (
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/changing-multiple-pitches),
> "If this [octave] check fails, a warning is printed, but the previous note
> is not changed. Future notes are relative to the controlpitch."  However, f
> below c' is not "relative" to c' since it is a fifth away from c'.  Or have
> I misunderstood what is meant by "relative"?
>
> Basically, my question is... why do we get f not f'?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Nik
>
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