Re: A few remarks concerning \relative

[David Kastrup]

Benkő Pál <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> \relative x??? { x
>>>> Namely start with the starting pitch.
>>>
>>> my two cents: I always do that.
>>
>> And my two cents: I never do that.
>> My rationale: in an (admittedly quite rare) case i want to paste the
>> contents of one relative to another relative, having various starting
>> pitches forces me to think how i should modify the octavation of the
>> first note when i move it around.  If everything is related to c* (or
>> another pitch, as long as it's the same everywhere), the calculation
>> is quite simple.
>
> but generally you have to relate to the last note before the paste position,
> so you can save thinking only when you paste from the very beginning
> of a relative block to the very beginning of another one.

\resetRelativeOctave f

to the rescue...

Actually, I noticed just now that built-in music functions are
documented in lilypond-notation, and of course all of my work on music
functions has resulted in borking this documentation.

Sigh.

-- 
David Kastrup