Hi, > It makes me think that it was a wrong design decision in lilypond to use > ' and , for octave indications and digits 1, 2, 4, 8, ... for durations. > If we had used digits for octave designations instead, absolute mode > would be much less painful to write, e.g.: > > c5 d5 e5 f5 g5 f5 e5 d5 c5
All other things being equal, that *would* have been great. > only powers of 2 are valid for durations I wonder if that’s true fundamentally, or if that’s just a parser limitation… It’s certainly not true for defining time signatures, moments, or other such things (which all take rational n/m), so I would think it should be possible to make Lily accept (e.g.) c3 as a valid duration. > But as far as relative mode is concerned, I agree that it has its warts > (especially when temporary split voices have their current relative > octaves taken from the last note in the input file as opposed to the > last common voice, which is extremely annoying). However, it works > wonders when writing orchestral parts where you need to double at the > octave -- just a cut and paste with an adjustment / octave check at the > beginning and you're all set, whereas in absolute mode you have to > painstakingly edit every single note to change the octave after pasting. Actually, I use \quoteDuring with \transpose; no cutting-and-pasting or editing of individual notes required. It works wonders! Best of all, if I change a note in the “original parts”, it automatically changes correctly in all the “mirrored parts”. (I did this with my last big orchestral Christmas carol arrangement: there were 9 wind parts that played only 2 patterns, so the time savings was significant.) > Please don’t deprecate [relative mode]! I’m sure it won’t be deprecated, despite its many flaws. Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user