Re: To Dave Arnold & others: Jazz chords

[Laurent Martelli]

>>>>> "Amelie" == Amelie Zapf <address@hidden> writes:

  Amelie> Hi folks, there's a topic coming up here: How to typeset
  Amelie> jazz chords. I know there are lots of philosophies, and I
  Amelie> don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings about the whole
  Amelie> thing. I'd pretty much like to go with the "Old Real Book"
  Amelie> standards and leave out redundant bullshit ... sorry
  Amelie> ... characters - like parentheses, for example. I'd go with
  Amelie> the plain old blank. So here's my proposal (working on that
  Amelie> for a comprehensive chord-names.scm (it's basically just
  Amelie> working off all the possible permutations that make sense):

I think there are many waysto typeset jazz chords, and none of them is
better than the others. But some people are more used to some than
others. I'm not sure that we can reach a consensus on this. So let's
have several ways of doing it. 

3)      Fifth denoted als +5 if standing alone, so that C(+5) doesn't get
        confused with C#(5) (parentheses only for clarity).

I'm sort of used to C5+ or C5# :-)


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Laurent Martelli
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