On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:09 AM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
unless we want to support rational durations written this way. No, i don't like the idea of using '/' that much. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:18 AM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > Janek Warchoł <[email protected]> writes: >> What about differentiating between notes and chords by case? >> a -> note >> A -> chord > > Would you use Bes or BES? Rather Bes. > If the former, how would you write the equivalent of bes:dim ? You mean, what case should "dim" be written in? I'd say that it could be lowercase: Bes:dim I.e., the difference between note and chord will be only in the case of the first letter. Or did i misunderstood you? Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
