On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 21:32, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:20:36 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > > Gianmaria Lari <gianmarial...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond > ml. > > > > > > I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I > decided > > > to stick to fixed mainly because I find fixing mistakes in relative > mode is > > > much more annoying than writing in fixed way.... > > > > > > But what if the editor would help a bit? What if you enter music in > > > relative mode (don't worrying to specify the octave) but your editor > would > > > propose the "correct" (nearest) octave to add? > > > > > > For example suppose your cursor is immediatly after > > > > > > b' > > > > > > > > > and then you type > > > > > > c > > > > > > > > > What if the editor proposes to autocomplete with '' ? > > > > > > This is just an idea. > > > > You know that Frescobaldi can convert absolute to relative and vice > versa? > > As can the ly standalone (derived from F~ possibly). > Sorry I don't understand. > But if you can coerce an editor into doing this trick, I would suggest > that absolute is a better target than fixed. Perhaps you meant that anyway. > What's the difference? I was thinking they were synonimus in lilypond talking. > However, there may be a downside. With relative, a wrong decision on > one note has a dramatic effect on the following music, but is easily > corrected with one tick. When this trick has been applied, many > notes may have to be individually tickled after the mistake is > discovered. > Maybe you're right. Or maybe the fact to see clearly what the editor propose you (for each note) make you very self conscious of what you write. Generally I appreciate the autocomplete feature even if I found it making my though less fluent (but maybe it's better :)) g. > Cheers, > David. >
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