Re: Multiple tensions in Chord Mode

[lilypond]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 03:38:28PM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 09:48:29AM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> > 
> > There is, however, one thing that I find impossible, that is, having two 
> > of the same tension in the chord symbol expression. There is a single 
> > case I can think of and that is having both flat-nine and sharp-nine on 
> > a dominant chord. e.g.
> > 
> >    In chord mode:
> > 
> >      c:7.9-.9+
> > 
> >    In regular markup:
> > 
> >      <c e g bes des' dis'>
> > 
> > Both of these produce a chord symbol AND chord without the flat-nine. It 
> > seems to only accommodate one 9th, and uses the last one encountered.

To answer your original question more succinctly ....

Your summation sure seems to match my testing.  The cool thing
that I learned is that chords that are engraved identically can
have different chordname markup depending on how the notes are
ordered in the .ly file, e.g. <c e g> vs. <c g e>.

So as far as a way to work around this, it seems you'll have to
drop out of chordmode when you have these chords at hand,
something like:


\version "2.15.38"

someChords = {

      \chordmode { f1 f1 }      % first part of chords

% C7 #9 b9
      <c' e' g' bes' des'' dis''>1

% C7 b9 #9
      <c' e' g' bes' dis'' des''>1

      \chordmode { f1 f1 }      % last part of chords

} % someChords


\score {
  <<
    \new ChordNames { \someChords }
    \new Staff {
      \key f \major
      \someChords
    } % Staff
  >>
} % score