Re: 'absolute' pitches do not influence 'relative' ones

[David Kastrup]

Leszek Wroński <address@hidden> writes:

> Guys,
>
> if you do this:
>
> \relative c'' {a \absolute {a''} b}
>
>
> then you jump up an octave and down a seventh. Now, suppose you want the
> notes AFTER the absolute one 'borrow' the pitch from it, so that in my
> example the 'b' would actually be absolute b''. How would one do this
> without creating a new \relative expression?

Not readily doable since there is no separate operation of tracking the
last pitch and turning music into relative.

> "Why on Earth would anyone want to do anything like this", I hear you
> ask?  I realised that this seems to be the simplest way of solving my
> infuriating tagging issue with long music expressions written in the
> \relative mode, with which I don't want to trouble you.

I recommend taking a look at \resetRelativeOctave instead.  If you write

\resetRelativeOctave a''

_separately_, it will not typeset any music but have the desired effect.

I find that it is essentially not documented at all.

-- 
David Kastrup