Re: \relative issue

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 13.54, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >> In light of this suprising you and the idea that relative means
> >> relative to something I might suggest that there be no default and
> >> that not specifying a starting point be an error.
> >
> > Yep.
>
> This is what it used to be, and it annoyed us that we had to type " c' "
> all the time for no obvious reason. If there were a clean way in which
> we could also make \relative the default, we'd do it in a heartbeat.
> Regarding the default: I agree that c has a nice theoretical rationale,
> otoh, middle C isn't middle for nothing, so it is a good default as well.

Another sensible default would be \relative f: In this case, the first note in 
the \relative music block can be interpreted as an absolute pitch.

BTW, I think it would be nice if \relative would be separated into two 
commands:
\rel { }
and
\relative c' { }

I think this split is required in order to soft-code \relative.

-- 
Erik