Re: A few remarks concerning \relative

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:44:33AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that's so not happening.  Come up with a different name and
we'll talk.

> He'd have to learn absolute note names,

Since I don't use lilypond myself, that's not an issue.

> and every existing Lilypond source would become invalid or change its
> meaning.

That's the issue.


I'm reluctant to add the suggestion of \relative f' {  to the
tutorial since all the examples are variants of c.  I'm also
reluctant to have a huge long discussion about something as
fundamental as note entry without a *lot* more advertising (i.e.
GLISS).
I'm willing to have a separate music function, documented in
Notation but not Learning, which behaves like you're suggesting.
This could even become the default way to do stuff in lilypond
3.0.

Cheers,
- Graham