Post #2556420
2026-02-28 02:13 UTC
@reillypascal@hachyderm.io Two opinionated LilyPond tips:
1. Use \language "english" at the top of each file so you can type note names as cs/cf/css/cff. Unless you really like typing Dutch note names (cis/ces/cisis/ceses).
2. The manual recommends \relative mode but I'm not a fan. I prefer "absolute" mode (the default one), and use \transpose to deal with unwieldy octaves.
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@reillypascal@hachyderm.io 2026-02-28 02:27
@ho@sonomu.club thanks for the tips! For the note names, I ended up switching to that out of necessity — I was setting up 8th/quarter tones (https://codeberg.org/reillypascal/forget/src/branch/main/include/eighth-quarter-tones.ly) and I didn't want to try researching what 8th tones “should” be in Dutch. For the transposition, is there a difference between typing e.g., `\fixed c'` and using `\transpose`? I had been trying out `\fixed` plus a reference octave.