Re: Relative mode

[Aaron]

what version of lilypond are you using???
relative mode has changed.
Aaron
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 23:30, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi everybody, 
> 
> I've been using Lilypond for a couple of years now, 
> but this is the first time I use this mailing list. 
> I tried to see if anyone wrote something about my issue, 
> I have not found anything relevant, but please excuse me 
> if I just did not look well enough, and this happens to 
> be the 200th thread about this issue. 
> 
> It's about relative mode. I continuously compute intervals 
> to see whether the next note is going to be the upper or the lower one, 
> I write 
> 
> c f g a 
> 
> when I intent 
> 
> c f, g a 
> 
> so I spend quite some time checking the output and correcting such 
> mistakes in large and complex scores. 
> 
> Wouldn't it be useful to have a notation to say "the closest f downwards" 
> or the "closest a upwards" rather than having to compute intervals and to 
> see whether the comma/quote is required or not ? A way of using the 
> relative mode by giving the direction explicitly rather than making 
> it implicit by the distance from the last note. 
> 
> Am I the only one with this (minor) frustration ? Is there something 
> that does exactly what I have in mind, and which I never found ? 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Darius. 
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