Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 01:33:42PM +0200, Karl Hammar wrote:
> David Kastrup:
> > Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> ...
> > And what if you see \chordmode { c,4:1/c c g,:1/g c } in the input
> > (which is basically how you put bass notes in now if you really must)?
> ...
> 
> For the simple chords c\maj c\dim c\maj7 etc. could suffice.
> For more complex chords one could extend the <c e g> syntax to <c 3 5>.

That's a very interesting idea!  Durations need to be specified
outside the chord, of course, so that's not a concern.

OTOH, what about doing something like this:
  c\maj
  c\dim
  c\chord #'(1 4 5)
  c\chord #'(1 3 5 7 11)

If somebody used a lot of special chords, they could define their
own identifiers to replace the \chord functions.

Cheers,
- Graham