Janek Warchoł <[email protected]> writes: > 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]
[...] > [1] we're running out of ASCII characters... That's a shame ;P & has no really convincing mnemonic value. The last time this was discussed (some years ago I think) it was suggested that ";" looked almost like ":". Not exactly an overwhelming reason, but likely beating "&". My personal gut feeling is that probably "/", already used for separating a chord base, could possibly be used for introducing chords. It is not perfect: c1/7 can be c followed by 1/7, or it can be a seventh chord on c with the duration of a whole note. But c1 already can be pitch c followed by number 1 or a whole note c. The difference is that 1/7 is a lexical unit of its own. But this probably could be made to work. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
