'absolute' pitches do not influence 'relative' ones

[Leszek Wroński]

Guys,

if you do this:

\relative c'' {a \absolute {a''} b}

then you jump up an octave and down a seventh. Now, suppose you want the notes AFTER the absolute one 'borrow' the pitch from it, so that in my example the 'b' would actually be absolute b''. How would one do this without creating a new \relative _expression_?

"Why on Earth would anyone want to do anything like this", I hear you ask? I realised that this seems to be the simplest way of solving my infuriating tagging issue with long music expressions written in the \relative mode, with which I don't want to trouble you. "Use a good editor like Frescobaldi and convert them to absolute", I hear you say? Sure, I might try that. But if there's a way of achieving what I outlined above, I'd be grateful for a hint!

Cheers,

Leszek.