I think others have pointed out that slashes should ONLY used to
indicate bass notes. However, the Lilypond chord scheme ignores this
(as well as using a chord notation system that is completely
unfamiliar to most modern jazz instrumentalists).
The slash in in a superscript, and appears, at least to me, to be quite
distinct from a slash used to denote an alternate bass note. While not
ideal perhaps, I balance the frustration with the fact that without Lilypond
I'd still be scratching things out by hand. Which is to say, not at all.
I still haven't figured out how to use the Chord Name Exceptions feature,
but apparently you can alter the way the chords are displayed to suit your
needs. I think the example shows a sus 4 chord as a "waaaah" chord (sounds
like a guitarist I work with who used to call a major 7th "the California
chord"...).
So far the only two chords that I've been disappointed about are the
Half-diminished (would rather have it notated as m7b5) and the "9 (add 13)",
which I would rather seen notated as just a 13th. I suspect these are
cultural differences between European practice and American practice.
But again, there appears to be a way to do this, so I'm not going to call it
a bug or shortcoming. The shortcoming is my understanding.
By the way, I'm using 2.6.5, and b :7.9+ gives me B7/#9 (with the chord
alteration in superscript).
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