Re: splitting chords entered as <<c e g>>^"with stuff" \etc

[Tim Woodall]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:

> I find \relative to work quite nicely for chords, once I understood that
> the first note in a chord gets its octave from the first note of the
> previous chord.  I use \relative mode virtually exclusively for note entry,
> regardless of whether it's in single notes or using the chord construct < >.
> I do use absolute when I'm in chordmode.
I learned quite a lot writing the script. I had assumed that it was the
interval that was important in deciding whether a note was higher or
lower than the previous note but I now know that it's based on the note
names and ignores accidentals.

So ceses->fisis will go up while cisis->geses will go down. It's obvious
once you've worked it out but I'd been getting away with fifth (7
semitones)=down, fourth(5 semitones)=up which works in almost all cases
in classical music.  A six semitone interval is fairly unusual and I had
guessed that there would be a setting to decide which way it want
\augfourdown, \augfourup or something like that.

(That explains some of the apparently odd ways I've done some things in
the script. Initially I was converting notes to numbers 0..11 but that's
no use when you need to distinguish between Gb and F# to calculate
whether a ' or , is required.)

Tim.

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