On Thursday 26 February 2004 11.29, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > I assume that you mean \transpose and nothing else. > Of course, this is one good approach to avoid having to > type all the ' and ,. However, I still recommend you to > give the \relative another try. I think most people on this > list agree that it's very convenient once you get used to it. > The basic idea is very simple, as long as the melody only > includes intervals that are not larger than a fourth, you don't > need any ' or ,. For all larger intervals, you add 's or ,s to > get to the correct octave.
I can however imagine that some things can be simpler to typeset with absolute mode, e.g. if there is a lot of chords and not so much melodic lines. This can be the case in some piano music. Erik _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
