Hi again, >> I find \relative mode quite helpful in orchestral works because it lends >> itself very well to copy-n-paste octave doublings. Trying to do that in >> absolute mode and needing to edit tens of 's and ,s after you copy a >> line that needs to be transposed by an octave is quite painful. > > \fixed or \transpose is what I use if I’m copying-and-pasting orchestral > doublings: no editing of ’s or ,s needed! > For exact doublings, I use the quoting mechanism, of course!
And, of course, Frescobaldi’s transpose function(s) are wonderful, if you want to make the change “permanently”. In any case, there’s never a need for manually editing the octavation of a sequence of notes when reusing code in Lilypond. 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