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From: | Martin Tarenskeen |
Subject: | Re: What is the problem with "\relative"? (Was: Do we really offer the future?) |
Date: | Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:21:20 +0200 (CEST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) |
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote:
Greetings, The reasons for one not using relative mode are clear, but it hardly justifies calling for its deprecation. As a composer of primarily piano music, it is an absolute lifesaver. And all to whom I have introduced LilyPond, primarily pianists or harpists, immediately gravitated to relative mode. Again, why deprecate it when you have the option of simply not using it? Hwaen Ch'uqi
+1I often use LilyPond to quickly enter a very simple tune or small pianosheet needing just a simple texteditor (Vim). I use \relative all the time. c g c e g is soo much faster and easier than c''' g'' c''' e''' g''' g'''.
And personally I find lilypond code in \relative mode easier to read.I agree that for complex scores with much music in variables \relative mode can have annoying side-effects.
-- MT
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