>>> \relative x??? { x >>> Namely start with the starting pitch. >> >> my two cents: I always do that. > > And my two cents: I never do that. > My rationale: in an (admittedly quite rare) case i want to paste the > contents of one relative to another relative, having various starting > pitches forces me to think how i should modify the octavation of the > first note when i move it around. If everything is related to c* (or > another pitch, as long as it's the same everywhere), the calculation > is quite simple.
but generally you have to relate to the last note before the paste position, so you can save thinking only when you paste from the very beginning of a relative block to the very beginning of another one. copy&paste is dangerous anyway - I'm generally bitten when the first pasted note doesn't have an explicit duration. p _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel