Re: error in predefined chord diagram?

[Tim McNamara]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Colin Campbell wrote:

> There is a discussion on -bug about the display of chords for jazz
> musicians, essentially asking for simplification in the interests of
> readability.  Following on Bart's suggestion, is it feasible to create
> alternate display modes tied to a table, such that one could e.g.
> 
> \setDiaqgramInstrument ="guitar" 
> \setChordDisplay = "jazz"

Wow, that is a very interesting idea.  A lot of jazz musicians like the chord 
name spelled out (Cmin7b5) and others prefer it more symbolic (CØ).  It would 
be *really* cool to be able to just choose between nomenclature styles.

It would also be wonderful to be able to stack extensions and alternative 
voicings:

D7(b5)

          (b9)
D7#5(b13)   but in one tall parentheses (there may be a way to do that already 
but I don't know how).

Also, whomever added the "N.C." function to \chordmode when a rest is entered 
did a very nice thing IMHO.  I was very pleasantly surprised to see that.