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Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative
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Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:44:03 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 12:20:19AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Olivier Biot <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Treating the first pitch of \music in \relative \music differently is
> > not intuitive and will likely result in octave errors.
>
> Treating the first pitch of \music in \relative is _absolutely_
> _unavoidable_ since the very _definition_ of relative pitches means that
> each pitch is specified in relation to the previous pitch, and the first
> pitch _has_ no previous pitch.
>
> So the first pitch will _always_ be special-cased. With a reference
> pitch, it is special-cased to refer to that absolute pitch. Without a
> reference pitch, it has to behave in _some_ manner as well.
The first pitch *within the {}* doesn't need to be special-cased.
It's just relative to the reference pitch, which is *outside* the
{}. I still think that we should remove \relative { without any
reference pitch.
- Graham
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, (continued)
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, Olivier Biot, 2013/03/08
- Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, Hwaen Ch'uqi, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, David Kastrup, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, Janek Warchoł, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, David Kastrup, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, Olivier Biot, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, Janek Warchoł, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, David Kastrup, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, Olivier Biot, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, David Kastrup, 2013/03/09
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative,
Graham Percival <=
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, David Kastrup, 2013/03/12
- Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative, Janek Warchoł, 2013/03/12
- \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign, nothingwavering, 2013/03/13
- Re: \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign, Marc Hohl, 2013/03/13
- Re: \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/03/13
- Re: \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign, David Kastrup, 2013/03/13
- Re: \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/03/13
- Re: \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign, David Kastrup, 2013/03/13
- Re: \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign, nothingwavering, 2013/03/14
- Re: \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign, Kieren MacMillan, 2013/03/14