Re: A few remarks concerning \relative

[Benkő Pál]

> Seems like I am starting the wrong popular revolution.  I ask "Isn't
> \relative f nice?" and people say "Sure, but let's call it \relative { }
> instead, never mind that the name is taken."

> You are the second in a row, and if I understand "Basso Profundo"
> correctly (he has not followed up yet), his particular problem would
> have been non-existent with that default.
>
> Now I don't like having two different syntaxes for \relative, but I
> guess Graham would kill me if I proposed just leaving \relative { ... }
> in place with a new meaning.  He'd have to learn absolute note names,
> and every existing Lilypond source would become invalid or change its
> meaning.

no different syntaxes for anything, I agree.  I wouldn't mind a new name.
I tremendously like the idea to anchor a \relative block by writing the
first used pitch in absolute instead of introducing an absolute before-first
pitch used for nothing else.

p (o Basso profondo ma non troppo)