Re: Proposed new available and recommended behavior of \relative

[David Kastrup]

Jim Long <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 11:27:27PM +0100, Janek Warcho?? wrote:
>
>> Also, what would happen if someone used q as the first thing after
>> initial chord?
>
> No change.  q works by repeating the pitches, not by "replaying"
> the input syntax.  Otherwise even the current behaviour of:
>
> \relative c { <c' e g> q q q }
>
> would engrave each q an octave higher than the one before.

Which it did in the first implementations.  And was prone to do under
more complex circumstances for quite a long time until most of q's
action got reimplemented outside of the parser.

But at any rate: the change only concerns the choice of reference pitch,
so nothing _inside_ of \relative really changes.

-- 
David Kastrup