On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:48 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:

> David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I just discovered that typesetting a piano piece which constantly uses
> > temporary voices is much easier in absolute mode. Switching from voice
> > to voice no longer gives any register surprises.
> >
> > Absolute mode also tempts me to skip a few measures when I want to
> > procrastinate tackling a difficult spot but still want to keep
> > working.
>
> Well, there is always \resetRelativeOctave, and after getting the
> octaves wrong, at most one note needs changing to get back into synch
> anyway.
>
> While the make-relative macro can help a lot, designing music
> manipulating macros that don't do surprising things in \relative mode is
> also tricky.
>

One can also use octave checks in relative mode:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/changing-multiple-pitches#octave-checks
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