Re: Absolute vs. relative pitches

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:42 AM


> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:31:16 +0100
> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > John, you wrote Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:53 PM
> >
> > > IMNSHO we *must* discuss absolute vs. relative pitches with usage
> > > cases in the Learning Manual.
> >
> > I agree with this.  IIRC I wanted to do so but Graham vetoed it, but
> > maybe he opposed it just in the early sections of the manual.
>
> I still disagree.  One of the big changes in GDP was standardizing
> on \relative c'' {} for the example.  Now you want to go back? :(

Not at all.  No one is suggesting changing any of the
examples.  I agree standarising these on relative is right.
The suggestion is simply to discuss the merits and demerits 
of relative and absolute properly, later in the manual.

> Some new users found it really confusing when examples were
> randomly switching between relative and absolute -- sometimes even
> on the same doc page!
>
>
> I wouldn't mind adding a section to LM 3 about absolute mode, with
> usage cases and whatnot.  But I still really think that everything
> else in the docs should be \relative.

Great!  We are agreed, then :)

> Cheers,
> - Graham