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Re: Relative mode
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Mats Bengtsson |
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Re: Relative mode |
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:06:07 +0200 |
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I certainly recognize the problem of having to correct a
few octave mistakes when entering a score, but I think the
general idea of relative mode is so intuitive that I don't
have to spend much time and effort while typing in the music.
However, you are certainly not alone, since a new octave check
feature was added in version 2.0 of LilyPond, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Octave-check.html
Do you have any concrete suggestion for how this should be done
otherwise? I guess you still don't want to type c d' e' f' g' a' b' c'
for an ordinary scale, so we would need some other input symbol to
mean "closest upwards" and "closest downwards".
Also, have you tried using absolute mode, i.e. to use
\transpose c c'{...} instead of \relative c'{...}.
Depending on the type of music and your way of thinking,
it may be more convenient. Note that you can change the
"default" octave in the middle of a piece, by starting a
new \transpose ... section.
/Mats
address@hidden wrote:
Hi everybody,
I've been using Lilypond for a couple of years now,
but this is the first time I use this mailing list.
I tried to see if anyone wrote something about my issue,
I have not found anything relevant, but please excuse me
if I just did not look well enough, and this happens to
be the 200th thread about this issue.
It's about relative mode. I continuously compute intervals
to see whether the next note is going to be the upper or the lower one,
I write
c f g a
when I intent
c f, g a
so I spend quite some time checking the output and correcting such
mistakes in large and complex scores.
Wouldn't it be useful to have a notation to say "the closest f downwards"
or the "closest a upwards" rather than having to compute intervals and to
see whether the comma/quote is required or not ? A way of using the
relative mode by giving the direction explicitly rather than making
it implicit by the distance from the last note.
Am I the only one with this (minor) frustration ? Is there something
that does exactly what I have in mind, and which I never found ?
Cheers,
Darius.
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- Relative mode, darius, 2003/10/21
- Re: Relative mode, Aaron, 2003/10/21
- Re: Relative mode,
Mats Bengtsson <=
- Re: Relative mode, Rune Zedeler, 2003/10/22
- Re: Relative mode, David Raleigh Arnold, 2003/10/22
- Re: Relative mode, darius, 2003/10/22
- Re: Relative mode, Aaron, 2003/10/23
- Re: Relative mode, David Raleigh Arnold, 2003/10/23
- Re: Relative mode, Rune Zedeler, 2003/10/24
- Re: Relative mode, David Raleigh Arnold, 2003/10/24