Octave checks, relative, and spurious warnings ...

[Anthony Youngman]

The following code works, but generates warnings that I don't want ...

\version "2.8.2"

pennsylvania = {
        \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross
        r2_\markup{ shout } \octave f f8. f16 f8. f16 f4 f f8. f16 r4
}

voiceTromboneI =  \relative c' {

        r2  ef4.-- ef8-> ~ ef1 r2 r4 bf8.->( ef16-.) r2 r4 ef,8. af,16->
~ |
\break
        af2 c-- df-- d-- ef-- df-- c-- bf-- |
\break
        \repeat "volta" 2 { R1*6 } \alternative { { \pennsylvania } {
\pennsylvania } }

}

Note that in "pennsylvania" I didn't specify \relative because I wanted
an absolute f. The problem, when I actually use it in "voiceTromboneI"
is that that last b flat is "bf,". And because it's inside a \relative
it's giving me "f,"s, which I don't want (and didn't expect - I didn't
expect \relative to re-pitch an included music phrase).

As for fixing it, the only *clean* way I can see is to drop out of
relative before my pennsylvanias, and then re-invoke it afterwards.
Except that gets thoroughly messy too ... Obviously, I can't mark the
first note in pennsylvania as f'8. because that's going to bugger up the
second occurrence, giving me all f's there :-(

(I was about to moan about "f8.=" not working, but I've just realised
the correct syntax is "f=8." :-)

The manual says there's a difference between "=" and \octave (section
6.2.2) but both of them are giving me warnings - is there any way I can
say "I need this absolute note" in this sort of situation without
generating warnings?

This is yet another justification for 0-length notes that don't print
:-) you can reset the relative pitch outside of a fragment like this :-)

I know this probably isn't a bug, but it's a moan that things don't
behave as expected, and that inelegant work-arounds are required to
achieve simple ends (after all, doesn't lily *encourage* use of
fragments like this?). If it can be added to the "list of features that
users would like fixed" :-) it would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Wol

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