Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 12:20:19AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Olivier Biot <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Treating the first pitch of \music in \relative \music differently is
> > not intuitive and will likely result in octave errors.
> 
> Treating the first pitch of \music in \relative is _absolutely_
> _unavoidable_ since the very _definition_ of relative pitches means that
> each pitch is specified in relation to the previous pitch, and the first
> pitch _has_ no previous pitch.
>
> So the first pitch will _always_ be special-cased.  With a reference
> pitch, it is special-cased to refer to that absolute pitch.  Without a
> reference pitch, it has to behave in _some_ manner as well.

The first pitch *within the {}* doesn't need to be special-cased.
It's just relative to the reference pitch, which is *outside* the
{}.  I still think that we should remove \relative { without any
reference pitch.

- Graham