On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Timothy Dunnington wrote:
> 5.I'm not entirely clear on octaves. Its hard to know when you're
> typing in the parts whether you need to give it a ' or a ,. The only
> way I could do it was to do the best I could during entry, and then
> compile, look at it, go back and change it again. And of course the
> octave change affects all the notes after it...just wondering if
> anyone had a helpful tip on how to make this easier. Yes I'm using
> \relative...maybe that's actually making it more difficult?
I struggled a long time with \relative (I'm not a professional musician,
so I can't automatically figure out whether the the next note will go up
or down an octave). Now I'm back to non-\nrelative mode again. That's
actually easier, if you type in an existing score.
harti
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