On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:46 PM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > > I actually remembered one thing that remains worth doing: integrating > \chordmode into \notemode. > > Why would it make sense to have a unified mode? Being able to combine > single notes in the same voice and partly in parallel or succession with > full chords makes sense for the piano, the guitar, the accordion, and > probably several other instruments. Having to switch modes or spell out > standard chords all the time is an inconvenience. With all of these > instruments, "Um-pah" kind of accompaniments alternating between a > single bass note and a chord is rather frequent. Being able to write > those out sequentially would be seriously simplifying things.
That's and interesting idea! As for the ':' conflict, we could replace it with & (for chords). [1] > This would actually be a syntax project meaningfully tackled by a > community process, including making the decision of whether one wants to > tackle it. I vote for tackling it. cheers, Janek [1] we're running out of ASCII characters... That's a shame ;P _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
