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Re: Auto-transposition


From: David Wright
Subject: Re: Auto-transposition
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:45:13 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 10:02:19 (+0000), Wols Lists wrote:
> On 15/12/17 06:20, Saul Tobin wrote:
> > Relative mode makes perfect sense if you're entering music that cares
> > mainly about the relationship between notes within a phrase (i.e. most
> > music). IMO absolute mode might be easier from the perspective of the
> > software, but it's not how most musicians think, and that's
> > important. Maybe the documentation could do a better job explaining the
> > semantics of relative mode and when to use \resetRelativeOctave?
> > 
> > I take exception to the idea that relative mode ought to be deprecated.
> > I've been using exclusively relative mode to compose for almost ten
> > years, and I think it's great.
> 
> I think Han-Wen actually wrote \resetRelativeOctave for me :-)
> 
> But if you don't understand relative then it will mess you up.
> 
> Does anybody (not me :-) want to write a little update for the docu that
> will make both relative mode and \resetRelativeOctave (hopefully) clear?
> 
> It originated when I was (iirc) transcribing Chattanooga Choo-Choo, and
> there's a repeated phrase, so I thought I'd define it as a variable.
> OOOPPSS! The starting and ending notes are a fifth or more apart, and
> the phrase repeats with nothing else in-between. The resulting staircase
> was spectacular!
> 
> If somebody would care to take that as hint for putting an example in
> the docu, that's fine by me! :-)

Just use \relative early.

Cheers,
David.

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