> Is there some standard way to notate complex chords like m7(b5)
> 7(b13)...?

No. No two people seem to be able to agree on a standard for naming 
chords. (I speak from experience of trying to *propose* a naming 
convention for chords that would allow ABC-to-MIDI programs to parse them.)

The basic problems include:

- people who think + means 'add' and - means 'remove'
- people who think + means 'sharpen' and - means 'flatten'
- people who think + means 'augmented'
- what does Cb9 mean? (Cb)9, or C(b9)?
- people who can't distinguish between a single standard that allows 
chords to be machine-readable, and 'you've left my pet notation out'
-- 
Mike Whitaker
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