On 2022-01-09 2:50 pm, Valentin Petzel wrote:
It depends a bit on how structured your music is. If you’ve got two
Voices it
is reasonable to give both their own relative clause.
If you music does not have a lot of complex structure a top level
relative is
very much find. Problematic are cases where notes within the music
might
change, thus affecting stuff after it. This might be the case with
tags, but
also with cues or scores in footnotes (where also someone might think
about
adding something, and suddenly the main music body has problems.
Having been bitten more times than worth counting, I have almost
exclusively moved to using \fixed. The level of consistent and precise
control means I can add, change, or remove notes as well as freely copy
and paste music around without fear of notes being thrown off into the
wrong octave.
That said, I think \relative is still useful as a tool for
reasonably-scoped melodic phrases where there is much less chance for
things to go awry. So, if a song had, say, three main sections, I would
probably use one \relative per, decoupling the sections from each other.
(Also, there is a good chance each section ends up as its own variable
anyway.) Going more granular might make sense if a section was
particularly long. At that point, the early and later notes just stop
having any practical relationship with one another, so they might be
better placed in their own blocks.
-- Aaron Hill