> ------- Original Message -------
> From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk>
> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Sent: 15.5.09, 18:03:43
> Subject: Re: relative mode occasionally gets forgotten?
>
> In message <20090515145035.ga3...@nagi>, Graham Percival
> <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes
> >On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:46:39AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> >>
> >> First, I think that the information above should be put into 1.1.1 Writing
> >> Pitches as examples under Relative octave entry. There should be three
> >> separate items/examples:
> >>
> >> When relative blocks are nested, the innermost relative block applies.
> >>
> >> \relative c' { d e f \relative c'' { d e f}}
> >
> >Woah, that's froody! I would have never expected that!
> >
> >> Note: I haven't tested any of these examples.
> >
> >I tested the above, because I just couldn't believe it. Anyway, I
> >agree with these proposals.
> >
> When I first saw Chip's example, my reaction was "why on earth would you
> want to do that?"
>
> As I understand it, \relative converts from note names to absolute
> pitches. Pretty much everything else in lily works on pitches. In a .ly
> file you don't know, on seeing a "c", which c it is - middle, top, low,
> whatever. If it's wrapped in a \relative{}, that assigns a pitch to it.
> Anything else on seeing it assumes it's "c in the bass clef" as that's
> the pitch assigned to the note "c".
>
> So, I don't know how to word it, but when you're talking about \relative
> in the manual it should say that you should only use \relative
> immediately around your note names because it converts note names to
> absolute pitches. If there's another operator inside your \relative (ie
> in Chip's case, a \transpose, in the example above an inner \relative)
> that forces absolute pitches, then the \relative will do nothing because
> it doesn't know what to do with a pitch.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
> --
> Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk
>
I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but you can also run into problems using
\repeat inside a \relative block if an \unfoldRepeats is used outside the
block. For example in
Tune = \relative c' { \partial 4 d4 |
\repeat volta 2 { c4 d e g | }
}
the first c will be relative to the last g on the second play through using
\unfoldRepeats. Rewriting as
Tune = { \partial 4 d'4 |
\repeat volta 2 \relative c' { c4 d e g | }
}
resolves the problem. I try to make sure I keep \relatives at the innermost
block for this reason. Is this a case of programming style, and should the docs
cover it?
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