Re: Chord Naming

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 2/6/09 5:18 AM, "Momo (Paul Rode)" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Carl,
> 
> sorry for the late reply...
> 
> I'm still a bit of a Lilypond newbie and therefore
> do not completely understand what you intend to do.
> 
> It does, however, even to me sound like it's got
> something to do with how a chord designation
> looks like in the end. Right? If so: I know a
> couple of people who would jump for joy if they
> could make Lilypond print minor chords as plain
> lowercase letters with no "m" attached to them
> (e.g. "d" instead of "Dm" for a d minor chord)
> as that is the convention generally used in
> German song books. I think a respective feature
> request exists, too (but I do realize that the
> issue probably only concerns a very small fraction
> of Lilypond users...).

I'm not sure if this is part of my proposed change or not.  But I recognize
that it's on the list, and hope to be able to figure it out.
> 
> So if what you do would or could by any chance solve
> that issue as well or serve as a workaround me and a
> bunch of people here in Germany would be very happy...
> 
> Anyway, thanks for putting so much time and effort
> in continuously (damn, did I spell that correctly?)
> improving Lilypond!

You're welcome!

> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> PS: I tried to send this message to the list but
> it didn't get through. That's why I send it to
> you personally.

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HTH,

Carl