Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
In light of this suprising you and the idea that relative means
relative to something I might suggest that there be no default and
that not specifying a starting point be an error.
Yep.
The following responses are not necessary to try to convince you of
anything since I will probably continue to use
"\relative <pitch> { ... }" since it seems mostly logical to me to
always define what I want my notes to be relative to. I would think
that restoring the default to middle C would be reasonable.
This is what it used to be, and it annoyed us that we had to type " c'
" all the time for no obvious reason.
Seems obvious to me.
If there were a clean way in which we could also make \relative the
default, we'd do it in a heartbeat.
Relative to what? One would then often have to use the first pitch or
the new relativeoctave or whatever it is to get to the desired octave.
Regarding the default: I agree that c has a nice theoretical
rationale, otoh, middle C isn't middle for nothing, so it is a good
default as well.
Agreed.
I will comment that my style frequently leads to having to fix octaves
when I take a chunk of music out of one block to make it a macro. I
haven't thought of a way around that.
Paul
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