On Sat 05 Aug 2017 at 09:07:48 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi, > > > Huh, can't say I've heard of \fixed. > > It may have been a relatively [ha!] recent addition…? > See > <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/absolute-note-names>
AFAICT \fixed is not in 2.18.2 but is in 2.19 versions and their NMs. However, its only appearance in Changes (New Features) seems to be its use without introduction on the first page. > > And yeah, absolute mode is a lot easier than relative. If I want to > > duplicate a measure, I prefer just duplicating it instead of having to > > adjust the octave. > > Agreed. And including variables in multiple scores is immediate, etc. Well, it doesn't surprise me that you, as a composer, are happier using \absolute. The situation is quite different for transcribers of melodic music. The only places where \absolute is useful to me is with fragmentary parts, generally in the odd keyboard transriptions or reductions forced on me. (I didn't quite understand your use of "immediate" above.) \fixed makes me realise why, as a singer, both \fixed and \absolute don't fit with my way of thinking about pitch: they are both "octave-centric". IOW they treat the pitch change from b to c' (in all octaves) as special, whereas to me they're just two notes that happen to be next to each other, like e and f. Whether this is also influenced by possession of perfect pitch (which I don't have), I don't know. (\fixed could have been implemented differently, ie without collapsing the meaning of c' through b' as its first argument. This might make it more useful for parts having a limited range centered close to c.) Anyway, would the people who like \absolute please be a little less evangelical about it. Some of us are happy using \relative, and understand how it interacts (or, more usually, doesn't) with other constructions in LP. It's odd that one of your main reasons for abandoning \relative was merely a misunderstanding of what it does, but I think that that could partly be blamed on its documentation. \relative's treatment of accidentals merits bold typeface in the LM; perhaps its existence as an immediate _input_ method could be similarly emphasised where appropriate. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user