Re: Chords in LilyPond

[mskala]

On Thu, 25 May 2017, Charles Winston wrote:
> > On May 25, 2017, at 12:26 AM, Kieren MacMillan
> > <address@hidden> wrote: Except <e bf g’ c''> contains a
> > huge amount of information that cannot currently be input in
> > \chordmode (as far as I know).
> >
> > Ultimately, as long as we end up with an input system robust enough to
> > convey that amount of information, I don’t particularly care whether
> > it’s in \chordmode or whatever.
>
> True. I think ideally we need an input mode that is stronger than
> chordmode, or we at least need to improve chordmode to be able to handle

This is why I think the chord names -> music -> chord names flow is a
problem.  Real users do not think in terms of a translation from input to
notes and then from notes to output; as seen in the recurring threads on
this mailing list, most non-expert users don't even realize that "chord
mode" and the "ChordNames context" are two different things that do not
necessarily always go together.  The natural way for typesetting of chord
names to occur is by a direct mapping from input chord names to output
chord names without going through the current "music" data struture
consisting of notes, at all.

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Matthew Skala
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