Re: non-relative relative mode?

[GoochRules!]

On Feb 26, 2004, at 7:54 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote:

> On Thursday 26 February 2004 11.29, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > I assume that you mean \transpose and nothing else.

oops... right... I need to stop doing things at 2am (which perhaps 
explains my other problems...)

> > Of course, this is one good approach to avoid having to
> > type all the ' and ,. However, I still recommend you to
> > give the \relative another try. I think most people on this
> > list agree that it's very convenient once you get used to it.
> > The basic idea is very simple, as long as the melody only
> > includes intervals that are not larger than a fourth, you don't
> > need any ' or ,. For all larger intervals, you add 's or ,s to
> > get to the correct octave.
>
> I can however imagine that some things can be simpler to typeset with 
> absolute
> mode, e.g. if there is a lot of chords and not so much melodic lines. 
> This
> can be the case in some piano music.

This is EXACTLY what I'm doing.  For some reason I have decided to 
write all chords top-note down.  On my first try in relative mode I 
found my subsequent chords leaping off the staff -- each successive 
chord would begin about two octaves above the previous, and the notes 
within the chord where not in the octaves I had expected.  \transpose 
does exactly what I wish to happen, and so for the moment since it 
seems to be a perfectly sensible thing to do i'll stick with it.


--MP