Anthonys Lists <[email protected]> writes: > On 13/03/2013 19:24, [email protected] wrote: >> Here's the idea. >> >> 1. Define absolute octave syntax with the @-sign (let it be a >> mnemonic for _A_bsolute) to be the syntax for temporarily specifying >> an ABSOLUTE PITCH within a \relative block, such that the next >> pitch, if it doesn't use the @-sign also, is relative to the >> absolute pitch. >> >> 2. Keep \relative X { ... } working the same way as it is (DON'T >> make convert-ly change it around). >> >> >> What do people think? >> >> > Okay, this may be covered by other new facilities, but I remember I > had exactly the problem this is intended to solve. I wanted to use a > fragment inside a relative block, but the stuff around it messed up > the relative octave, so I wanted to be able to specify an explicit > octave for the first note of the fragment. (Han-Wen kindly wrote me a > little function, which may have become \reset-absolute-octave, I've > never used that so I'm not sure about that.)
If "the stuff around it messed up the relative octave", put it in a \relative section of its own. That section will be relativized independently from the surroundings. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
