Re: Absolute vs. relative pitches

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:31:16 +0100
"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:

> John, you wrote Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:53 PM
> 
> > IMNSHO we *must* discuss absolute vs. relative pitches with usage
> > cases in the Learning Manual.
> 
> I agree with this.  IIRC I wanted to do so but Graham vetoed it, but
> maybe he opposed it just in the early sections of the manual.

I still disagree.  One of the big changes in GDP was standardizing
on \relative c'' {} for the example.  Now you want to go back? :(
Some new users found it really confusing when examples were
randomly switching between relative and absolute -- sometimes even
on the same doc page!


I wouldn't mind adding a section to LM 3 about absolute mode, with
usage cases and whatnot.  But I still really think that everything
else in the docs should be \relative.

Cheers,
- Graham