Re: Chords in LilyPond

[mskala]

On Fri, 26 May 2017, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> I would manually write C/a if I want to let the player chose between c major 
> and a minor.
> (Lowercase letters for minor chords needed a while to be possible with 
> LilyPond, but they are.)

It's fine if you want to write that and you and the reader know what it
means, but I think most readers would interpret it as "C with A in the
bass" (and why that chord is not called A-minor-seventh, left unclear).
This would be a problem for a system like current LilyPond that insists on
translating it to notes and back, because the internal representation for
the choice is likely to collide with that for a chord which really is "C
with A in the bass"; but it'd be no problem with a system that just
formats and prints what's typed, in which "C/a" can mean anything and the
system doesn't need to interpret it.

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