Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 4371 in lilypond: examples need explicit \relative c'' {} to copy and paste correctly

[lilypond]

Comment #7 on issue 4371 by address@hidden: examples need explicit  
\relative c'' {} to copy and paste correctly
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4371

Part of the Graham Documentation Project was to make all the examples  
consistently use \relative, where before there was a mix of relative and  
absolute methods of indicating the octaves of pitches.

This consistency allowed use to hide the \relative c'' {} but I don't see  
any other advantage to consistency.  The user never needs to interpret  
pitches himself, because LilyPond does that for him, so seeing pitches  
entered in the opposite of his favorite method would not be a problem.

Between relative/absolute, people generally think relative is easier to  
enter (because of fewer ') while absolute is easier to read (because any  
given pitch gets a the same octave marks each time it appears).   The  
method that is easier to read would be more appropriate for the user  
manuals.

If we adopt a shorthand for \transpose x x'' to reduce the number of '  
marks, then we have an entry method that is both brief and easy to read.

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