Another aspect: on english keyboards, the single quote ' is easily reachable. But on german (and maybe other?) keyboards it’s further on the right and you need the shift key to get it; the neo layout (a german ergonomic layout which I use) also needs an extra key (called mod3, at qwerty’s caps lock position). So it’s easier not to have to type all these quotes (which can be very many when you write music for piccolo flute, piano, …). And I find { a''' e'''' c'''' a''' } not as readable as \relative a''' { a e' c a }.

Of course, for music with many big intervals may be better written in absolute mode (you will need many ' and , anyway).

On 14.06.2014 20:43, Knute Snortum wrote:
I am still a novice at using LilyPond (maybe a sophomore) but I'd like to
make one case for relative notes.  I'm typesetting a piece where there are
a lot of octave scale runs between both hands.  It's very nice to be able
to copy several beats or even bars of notes, irrespective of the clef, and
paste them in.  You couldn't do that with absolute notation.


Knute Snortum
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider <
[email protected]> wrote:

2014-06-13 19:19 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]
:

Hello all,


Hi Kieren,


I now code everything in absolute mode, and cannot believe how such a
little change has improved my life.


+1


But, as you say, “that’s just me”.  =)


Not just you, Kieren... ;)

Cheers,
Pierre


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