A couple of days ago, Kieren wrote the below:
One note for anyone hesitant to come over to #TeamAbsolute: \fixed is your
> friend. Most instruments (and definitely singers!) stick within about a
> 12th, for most music engraved by a large majority of the Lilypond user
> base. Using \fixed allows you to avoid the use of excessive ’s and ,s
> while giving you all the benefits of relative music. And it’s easy to reset
> the \fixed “base octave” if/when a passage jumps to a new one for an
> extended period of time. cf
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches#absolute-octave-entry
This got me excited to try \fixed for the first time.
My current engraving project has a single voice with a range of a seventh,
from an E to the D above it.
The MWE below contains a simplified version of the music.
My hope was to write
\fixed e'
… and thus be able to code all the pitch names in the score without ever
having to write any octave-changing marks. This would be a very clean
input/code file.
But it seems that \fixed places all pitches after it within a C-to-B octave
— as opposed to, in this example, the octave beginning on e'.
Is there any way to get \fixed to begin a new octave on a note other than C?
%%% SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.25.81"
*%% Score 1: The pitches used in the Regina caeli plainchant:*\relative f'
{
\key f \major
f g a bes
f c' d c
f, g a bes
c f, e g
}
*%% Score 2: With the \fixed command:\fixed e'% leads to the exact same
output as% \fixed c'*{
\key f \major
f g a bes
f c' d' c'
f g a bes
c' f e g
}
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
