Hi David, > LilyPond's input language has no representation for c-natural > as opposed to c-unkeyed-yet. Any kind of implementation would be doomed > without > that, anyway. Once you have that, it really becomes a tricky question > of where c-unkeyed-yet would get its final pitch. And how this is > supposed to behave with regard to transposition: transposing half a step > up and down again should be a do-nothing, so you'd actually also need a > cis-unkeyed-yet . Do we have a headache yet?
\relative gives me a headache. My point is how is this really different, for those who want to give themselves headaches? Your answer doesn’t convince me it’s all that different — only unadvisable. Cheers, Kieren.