Re: What is the problem with "\relative"? (Was: Do we really offer the future?)

[Noeck]

> Il 26/04/15 09.58, Johan Vromans ha scritto:
>> I've always considered \relative as an operation that should be
>> applied as
>> close to the actual notes as possible. This gives the least suprises, if
>> any.
>>
>>    \relative c'' {
>>      \new PianoStaff <<
>>        \new Staff { \time 2/4 c4 e | g g, | }
>>        \new Staff { \clef "bass" c,,4 c' | e c | }
>>      >>
>>    }
>>
>> This is, indeed, asking for problems...
>>
>>    \new PianoStaff <<
>>      \new Staff { \time 2/4    \relative c'' { c4 e | g g, } | }
>>      \new Staff { \clef "bass" \relative c,, { c4 c' | e c } | }
>>    >>
> 
> Did you invert your examples?

I think the comment "This is, indeed, asking for problems..." was
related to the example above (the first one), meaning this first example
is asking for problems and the second one is better (however not
commented explicitly).

Joram