David Nalesnik <[email protected]> writes:

> I just discovered that typesetting a piano piece which constantly uses
> temporary voices is much easier in absolute mode. Switching from voice
> to voice no longer gives any register surprises.
>
> Absolute mode also tempts me to skip a few measures when I want to
> procrastinate tackling a difficult spot but still want to keep
> working.

Well, there is always \resetRelativeOctave, and after getting the
octaves wrong, at most one note needs changing to get back into synch
anyway.

While the make-relative macro can help a lot, designing music
manipulating macros that don't do surprising things in \relative mode is
also tricky.

-- 
David Kastrup

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