Re: why Kieren is a \relative evangelist [was “Re: Nested transposition"]

[David Kastrup]

antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> writes:

> On 19/03/2021 16:43, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> It's somewhat mitigated by inserting octave checks every so often (say,
>> at the start of every section), so that when it does go wrong, there's a
>> warning, and the problem only propagates up to the next octave check
>> rather than the rest of the piece.
>
> :-)
>
> And Han Wen wrote the original octave check for me! Because I think I
> had exactly the problem Kieren is moaning about - I put a fragment of
> music in a variable, and because it started and finished over a 5th
> apart, I had great difficulty getting the phrase to repeat
> correctly. That was back in the 2.4/2.6 days ...

Ah, so you are at fault that

\relative { c=4 }

is valid music.

-- 
David Kastrup