Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3229 in lilypond: Use \relative without explicit starting pitch in the docs

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Updates:
        Summary: Use \relative without explicit starting pitch in the docs
        Labels: -Type-Enhancement Type-Documentation

Comment #30 on issue 3229 by address@hidden: Use \relative without explicit  
starting pitch in the docs
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3229

Changed the summary title and issue type to reflect the remaining focus of  
the issue.  It would likely be comparatively easy to resuscitate the last  
version of python/convert-rules.py in this patch and combine it with the  
somewhat better language detection I seem to remember having placed in  
released python/convertrules.py versions doing only the \relative ->  
\relative c' part of getting old sources with different default argument  
convention up to scratch.

The Frescobaldi adoption of this change is of course independent from  
making the lion's share of LilyPond's docs and examples omit an explicit  
reference pitch.

The script makes a massive amount of changes, and it would be good to at  
least glance over the resulting diffs.

When this was first proposed, the consensus was more or less to take a  
break and see whether people would tend to adopt this in the field.

If I do
git grep -l '\\relative {'|wc -l
in the current Mutopia repository, I see 53 files with this convention.   
Except that if I grep in that file list for '\\version' it turns out that  
there is a single version older than 2.16.  It does not get more convincing  
considering that it's a file submitted by a certain David Kastrup.

Now Mutopia is not necessarily representative, but if I grep for _other_  
files containing a version of 2.18 or more, I get 663 files.  So the  
majority of submissions are with explicit starting pitch.

The submission guidelines on the Mutopia page do not appear to suggest any  
particular use of \relative, so we can't blame them either.

For Frescobaldi, however, I consider this a reasonable _default_ conversion  
to \relative since it avoids asking questions.  And if it _does_ ask  
questions, just typing return in response should likely crank out \relative  
{ ... behavior.

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