Hi David, > I can't see the point in avoiding any methodology > that makes things easier and more reliable.
I agree 100%. Which is exactly why I abandoned \relative and use only \absolute. ;) YMMV, of course… but as soon as my use of Lilypond advanced beyond simple songs (e.g., I’m now regularly engraving works with 40+ staves and hundreds or even thousands of measures), and my desire to reuse material/code increased (e.g., I’m now regularly using quotations, variable sharing, and so forth within a piece, and even material sharing *between* pieces), I found \relative just has too many drawbacks, and makes things less reliable (though not less easy to input, of course). I am slowly converting all my old code to \absolute, and look forward to the day when I have no legacy \relative coding in any of my scores. I used \relative for nearly a decade, so there’s a lot of conversion to do… but I keep plugging away at it, whenever there’s an opportunity to revisit a score (e.g., someone asks for a revision, or new arrangement, etc.) Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
