Hi Aaron,
> I tend to think of something like \relative to be a lower-level construct,
> intended to be used as close as possible to the pitches in question. Since I
> try to keep things organized in variables where content and structure are not
> intermixed, \relative never appears at a higher-level scope in my work.
That’s great… But essentially all of the documentation has \relative at the
top-level. So what is a newbie to think, other than "My code should look like
\paper { … }
\header {…}
\relative c' { … }
But then they start to cut and paste code bits, or switch the order of voices,
or any of a dozen other natural and intuitive operations that don’t imply ‘I’m
destructive!!’… and then wonder why their music goes off the deep end.
> The only time I have to be careful with \relative is when using \tagged
> expressions:
Yeah, the way \tags and \relative battled it out was the second major reason I
left \relative behind for good.
(Ironically, most of the things I used to use \relative for I now handle with
the edition-engraver!)
Cheers,
Kieren.
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