Re: When to Use Pound Signs

[Robert Schmaus]

> On 27 Mar 2016, at 01:30, David Raleigh Arnold <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:42:39 +0100
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Jason Silver <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Anyone have thoughts on how to notate a A minor add 9?
>>> 
>>> I've tried this:
>>> 
>>> chExceptionMusic = {
>>>  <c e g d'>1-\markup { \super "add9" } % 1.3.5.9
>>>  <c ef g d'>1-\markup { "m" \super "add9" } % 1.3.5.9
>>> }
>>> 
>>> with this:
>>> 
>>> chordNames = \chordmode {
>>>  \set chordNameExceptions = #chExceptions
>>>  | a:1.3.5.9 | a:1.3f.5.9 |
>>> }
>>> 
>>> I get an error with the minor add 9.
>> 
>> Please try not making up code on the fly but use the actual code you
>> worked with.  It's rather tricky for readers to figure out genuine
>> errors from typos.  Here chExceptionMusic does not match chException,
>> and anyway, there is no such thing as a:1.3f.5.9.
> 
> Of course there is. Who says no, the chord police?
> 

No, but one of the main programmers of Lilypond who (iiuc) simply wanted to 
point out that a:1.3f.5.9 is not a chord expression that Lilypond could 
interpret (or is it?). In my experience, he tends to have valid opinions of 
these things ...