Peter Gentry wrote Monday, September 10, 2012 9:28 AM
> Having had my share of gripes re the manuals I am now a "born again" > supporter - they are great (not perfect) but great. Nice to be appreciated - thanks! > The notation manual is particularly good - the learning manual is fine never > seen a problem > with writing exclusively in absolute. That's fine - absolute is there for those who prefer it. > Like most normal people I find relative hard to get my head round and always > end > up with the wrong octave somewhere or other usually ending up beyond the > range > of the human ear. Well, I don't think the rest of us are abnormal. A few minutes practice for most normal people is all it takes ;) > If you import music from other programs absolute is the way to go - why is > relative > favoured so much? For many tunes notes tend to lie quite close to the next one, so relative is quicker to type. Also, as you've noted above, a single mistake is very easy to spot. An octave mistake on a single note in polyphonic music in absolute notation could easily go unnoticed. Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
