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Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music
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David Kastrup |
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Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music |
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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:47:09 +0100 |
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Colin Hall <address@hidden> writes:
> Keith OHara writes:
>
>> It took me years to realize that \relative was making LilyPond more
>> difficult
>> for me. I very often forget what was the last pitch I typed,
>> especially when
>> working on a few music expressions in parallel, and even when I do
>> remember the
>> burden of deciding if the interval is a fourth or fifth is distracting.
>>
>> I use temporary parallel constructions a lot, so the most recent
>> pitch in the
>> input is not always the most recent pitch in time. Re-arrangements of the
>> input require re-checking of the intervals at the boundaries.
>
> This is my experience, exactly.
I am not going to propose converting the LilyPond code base and
documentation to absolute.
Just saying.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, (continued)
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, Sarah k Alawami, 2013/03/10
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, David Kastrup, 2013/03/10
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, Sarah k Alawami, 2013/03/10
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, Nick Payne, 2013/03/10
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, Sarah k Alawami, 2013/03/11
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, David Kastrup, 2013/03/12
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, David G, 2013/03/11
- Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, David Rogers, 2013/03/12
Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, Wols Lists, 2013/03/10
Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music, Colin Hall, 2013/03/10