Federico Bruni <fedelogy <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 2015-04-23 9:21 GMT+02:00 Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen <at> zonnet.nl>:
>
> I often use LilyPond to quickly enter a very simple tune or small
pianosheet needing just a simple texteditor (Vim). I use \relative all the
time. c g c e g is soo much faster and easier than c''' g'' c''' e''' g'''
g'''.
> And personally I find lilypond code in \relative mode easier to read.
> I agree that for complex scores with much music in variables \relative mode
can have annoying side-effects.
>
> I agree: relative mode is much easier to enter.
What if we compare relative mode to absolute mode with repeated 's removed?
Is
\relative c''' { c g c e g }
easier than
\transpose c c''' { c g, c e g}
?
I find it easier to remember that a note is below the middle octave in
the range of an instrument, than to remember whether the previous note was
more than three scale-steps away.
We can easily define a shorter way to express the transposition by octaves
\absolute c''' { c g, c e g }
and it is not too hard to change the 460 examples in the manual that have
an implicit \relative c' {} or relative c'' {} to copy/paste-able music.
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