On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:31:54PM +0100, Markus Lutz wrote:
> Hello,
> looks really good.
> But I would prefer using maj or simply j for a Major7-chord.
> That would be nearer to guitar chords and would protect messing up with Cminor.
Except that it isn't nearer to *everyone*'s guitar chords.
Part of the whole problem with this disccssion is that there IS no standard
for guitar chords. We have:
aug or + for augmented
dim or - or o or o-with-a-line-through for diminished
m, min or - for minor
M maj or norhing for major
M, maj or j for major 7th (and yes, I've seen Cmaj7 mean C7)
+ or 'add' for added notes
- or 'no' for omitted notes
+ or # for sharpened notes
- or b for flattened notes
And that's just without trying: I have SEEN all of these in various charts,
and had to work out from context and piano parts which they meant.
As far as I see it, if we *want* abc to require a standard for chord names,
we have three choices:
1) don't
2) pick one and stick with it, either by democratic vote or the old "I wrote
the code so I get to choose" argument *grin*
3) allow chord 'dialects' so that folks who do it different ways can load up
the dialect they're used to with a %% directive.
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