My experience is exactly the opposite. I use the computer keyboard for input, and as most of the music is for piano, which spans several octaves outside the staves, absolute entry is a serious PITA. For vocal music, there aren't usually many wide skips, so again relative notation uses fewer keystrokes.
I'm sorry that this request has degenerated into a theological dispute as to the relative merits of \relative and \absolute. Both of them support different ways of working, and it's a question of which suits whom. Best regards, Peter mailto:[email protected] www.ptoye.com > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:21:07 -0500 > From: Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]> > To: Flaming Hakama by Elaine <[email protected]> > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Nested transposition > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Hi Elaine, >> That may be so, but you likely pay for it every day by typing out extra >> commas and apostrophes. > My music entry is done 99% by MIDI input, so I type almost no commas or > apostrophes. > ;) > Cheers, > Kieren. > ________________________________ > Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) > ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info > ‣ email: [email protected] > ------------------------------
