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 _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond