Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music

[David Kastrup]

Colin Hall <address@hidden> writes:

> Keith OHara writes:
>
>> It took me years to realize that \relative was making LilyPond more
>> difficult
>> for me. I very often forget what was the last pitch I typed,
>> especially when
>> working on a few music expressions in parallel, and even when I do
>> remember the
>> burden of deciding if the interval is a fourth or fifth is distracting.
>>
>> I use temporary parallel constructions a lot, so the most recent
>> pitch in the
>> input is not always the most recent pitch in time.  Re-arrangements of the
>> input require re-checking of the intervals at the boundaries.
>
> This is my experience, exactly.

I am not going to propose converting the LilyPond code base and
documentation to absolute.

Just saying.

-- 
David Kastrup