On 23 December 2016 at 10:39, ptoye <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] I really didn't mean to start a theological discussion about how one > should > type in music, but obviously some people feel much stronger about it than I > do. There are three ways of telling LilyPond what the pitch of a particular > note should be, and it/'s up to the user to try them out and decide which > one suits him and the particular piece best. For me, it's mostly \relative, > but the melodies usually don't move by much. If I were Webern, it would > be\absolute. >
There is a price to pay for having many different possibility to do something. A major complexity in writing Lilypond software (but we could say that this is not our problem :)) but also a major complexity in managing/reading the lilypond score source files. So I think it is always correct to think before adding something you can already do in another way. I agree that in this case probably it makes sense having both. Another thing, as Kieren mentioned, is what the documentation should promote: absolute or relative? I don't know.
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