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Re: What is -dold-relative and why do we need it?
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Graham Percival |
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Re: What is -dold-relative and why do we need it? |
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Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:16:03 +0100 |
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On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:18:16PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
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> and it is queried in quite a few places. Lilypond 1.8 seems like a
> rather old version to support.
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> Do we really need to have this around? Anybody even knows what it does?
IIRC, old-relative had to do with the behavior of relative octaves
and repeats -- should the second alternative be based on the last
note *before* the first alternative, or the last note *inside* the
first alternative.
I would rather postpone any discussion about keeping this until
the GOP proposal on deprecation. Vaguely scheduled for Dec.
- Graham