Graham Percival wrote Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:42 AM
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:31:16 +0100
"Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John, you wrote Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:53 PM
> IMNSHO we *must* discuss absolute vs. relative pitches with usage
> cases in the Learning Manual.
I agree with this. IIRC I wanted to do so but Graham vetoed it, but
maybe he opposed it just in the early sections of the manual.
I still disagree. One of the big changes in GDP was standardizing
on \relative c'' {} for the example. Now you want to go back? :(
Not at all. No one is suggesting changing any of the
examples. I agree standarising these on relative is right.
The suggestion is simply to discuss the merits and demerits
of relative and absolute properly, later in the manual.
Some new users found it really confusing when examples were
randomly switching between relative and absolute -- sometimes even
on the same doc page!
I wouldn't mind adding a section to LM 3 about absolute mode, with
usage cases and whatnot. But I still really think that everything
else in the docs should be \relative.
Great! We are agreed, then :)
Cheers,
- Graham
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