Re: A few remarks concerning \relative

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:39 PM

> "\relative f will interpret whatever note starts that group as if 
> it
> were specified as an absolute pitch." would be what I meant.

Hhm.  It's a neat trick, but writing

\relative f { b'' ...}

seems more convoluted to me than writing

\relative b'' { b ...}

or have I missed something?

> I would have considered it a better default
> for \relative { ... } as well, but that's water down the old 
> drawbridge.

Now that would have been sensible ... maybe still is.

Trevor