I certainly recognize the problem of having to correct a few octave mistakes when entering a score, but I think the general idea of relative mode is so intuitive that I don't have to spend much time and effort while typing in the music. However, you are certainly not alone, since a new octave check feature was added in version 2.0 of LilyPond, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Octave-check.html
Do you have any concrete suggestion for how this should be done otherwise? I guess you still don't want to type c d' e' f' g' a' b' c' for an ordinary scale, so we would need some other input symbol to mean "closest upwards" and "closest downwards".
Also, have you tried using absolute mode, i.e. to use
\transpose c c'{...} instead of \relative c'{...}.
Depending on the type of music and your way of thinking,
it may be more convenient. Note that you can change the
"default" octave in the middle of a piece, by starting a
new \transpose ... section./Mats
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Hi everybody,
I've been using Lilypond for a couple of years now, but this is the first time I use this mailing list. I tried to see if anyone wrote something about my issue, I have not found anything relevant, but please excuse me if I just did not look well enough, and this happens to be the 200th thread about this issue.
It's about relative mode. I continuously compute intervals to see whether the next note is going to be the upper or the lower one, I write
c f g a
when I intent
c f, g a
so I spend quite some time checking the output and correcting such mistakes in large and complex scores.
Wouldn't it be useful to have a notation to say "the closest f downwards" or the "closest a upwards" rather than having to compute intervals and to see whether the comma/quote is required or not ? A way of using the relative mode by giving the direction explicitly rather than making it implicit by the distance from the last note.
Am I the only one with this (minor) frustration ? Is there something that does exactly what I have in mind, and which I never found ?
Cheers,
Darius.
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