Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:37:55AM +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: >> >> >>The idea is that \relative { ... } (namely \relative used without an >> >>explicit reference pitch) uses the first note inside as the reference >> >>pitch. That is, if the first note happens to be written as fis'' it >> >>will sound as fis'' (absolute pitch). >> >> I wouldn't mind, if I can still use the the old syntax, which is >> what I prefer, and if the documentation clearly explains these two >> ways of usage. I think the old syntax is easier for me when I want >> to copy/paste notes. > > I don't think the documentation *can* clearly explain the proposed > way of usage. > > """If you do not add an explicit pitch, the first note within the > {} is interpreted as an absolute note, while the following notes > within {} are interpreted as relative notes.""" > > ok, the English grammar is not hard, but the concept is > unnecessarily complicated.
"Every pitch except the first is interpreted relative to the previous pitch. The first written pitch after @code{\relative} is in absolute pitch. If @code{\relative} is @emph{immediately} followed by a pitch, this pitch is @emph{only} used as the reference pitch for the following music and not interpreted otherwise." That's not unnecessarily complicated. In fact, it is quite straightforward. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user