On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 04:00, Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden> wrote:
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> I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond ml.
>
> I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I decided to stick to fixed mainly because I find fixing mistakes in relative mode is much more annoying than writing in fixed way....
>
> But what if the editor would help a bit? What if you enter music in relative mode (don't worrying to specify the octave) but your editor would propose the "correct" (nearest) octave to add?
>
> For example suppose your cursor is immediatly after
>
> b'
>
>
> and then you type
>
> c
>
>
> What if the editor proposes to autocomplete with '' ?
>
> This is just an idea.
> Best regards, g.
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>
> I saw the discussion about fixed vs relative few times in the lilypond ml.
>
> I think it's a lot about personal taste and habit and personally I decided to stick to fixed mainly because I find fixing mistakes in relative mode is much more annoying than writing in fixed way....
>
> But what if the editor would help a bit? What if you enter music in relative mode (don't worrying to specify the octave) but your editor would propose the "correct" (nearest) octave to add?
>
> For example suppose your cursor is immediatly after
>
> b'
>
>
> and then you type
>
> c
>
>
> What if the editor proposes to autocomplete with '' ?
>
> This is just an idea.
> Best regards, g.
> _______________________________________________
> lilypond-user mailing list
> address@hidden
(Sorry for the duplicate Gianmaria, replied without adding lilypond-user)
This
is what I use- it works in both relative and absolute mode. Still Linux
only because I haven't learned Python and QT just yet...
Vaughan