On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
I find \relative to work quite nicely for chords, once I understood that the first note in a chord gets its octave from the first note of the previous chord. I use \relative mode virtually exclusively for note entry, regardless of whether it's in single notes or using the chord construct < >. I do use absolute when I'm in chordmode.
I learned quite a lot writing the script. I had assumed that it was the interval that was important in deciding whether a note was higher or lower than the previous note but I now know that it's based on the note names and ignores accidentals. So ceses->fisis will go up while cisis->geses will go down. It's obvious once you've worked it out but I'd been getting away with fifth (7 semitones)=down, fourth(5 semitones)=up which works in almost all cases in classical music. A six semitone interval is fairly unusual and I had guessed that there would be a setting to decide which way it want \augfourdown, \augfourup or something like that. (That explains some of the apparently odd ways I've done some things in the script. Initially I was converting notes to numbers 0..11 but that's no use when you need to distinguish between Gb and F# to calculate whether a ' or , is required.) Tim. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://www.woodall.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
