Re: 13th chord?

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Well,
> the printed output of
>
> m =
> \chordmode {
>     <c' e' g' bes' d'' f'' a''>
>     c:11.13
>     %% unnecessarily verbose:
>     c:1.3.5.7.9.11.13
> }
>
> mII =
> \chordmode {
>     <c' e' g' bes' d''  a''>
>     c:13
>     %% unnecessarily verbose:
>     c:1.3.5.7.9.13
> }
>
> <<
>   \new ChordNames { \m \mII }
>   \new Staff { \m \mII }
>>>
>
> looks perfectly fine to me.

The printed output for all of the first is C13 (so we have c:11.13 ->
C13).  The printed output for all of the second is C9 13 (so we have
c:13 -> C9 13).

As a user interface, that's peculiar.  The question is why we have
different defaults for input and output of chords.

> Obviously it's _me_ not understanding the issue.

Does this make it clearer?

-- 
David Kastrup