Re: Is there a short way of forcing a particular octave?

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi,

> I find \relative mode quite helpful in orchestral works because it lends
> itself very well to copy-n-paste octave doublings. Trying to do that in
> absolute mode and needing to edit tens of 's and ,s after you copy a
> line that needs to be transposed by an octave is quite painful.

\fixed or \transpose is what I use if I’m copying-and-pasting orchestral 
doublings: no editing of ’s or ,s needed!
For exact doublings, I use the quoting mechanism, of course!

Cheers,
Kieren.
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