Robert Schmaus <robert.schm...@web.de> writes: > So, again, it boils down to whatever works. There's no standard to > this, and frankly, I've never experienced that as a problem. Jazz > music is improvised music, and I don't know a jazz musician who has > problems "improvising" here as well. Everyone has different > preferences, sure, but problems reading different styles - not at all. > My own preference for C-Δ7 over, say, Cmmaj7 is simply a question of > space: the latter takes up WAY too much of it (in particular as this > chord often appears as a transition between C- and C-7 and uses only > half a bar). > > But there's another thing that surprises me in this discussion: I > always thought that Lilypond is mainly being used and intended for > "classical" (exact) music. > Now I have the impression that indeed many use it for jazz sheets as > we'll - I, myself, use LP only for that, but can't move from version > 2.16 to 17 or 18, because the possibility to have Staffs accept chord > names has been removed.
Please don't spread rumors. It works as before: <URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/context-layout-order> This has been fixed in 2.17.30, issue 3641. So it most definitely does not preclude you from moving to 2.18 or 2.19. > That is, however a common notation practice in jazz music. Is there an > obvious replacement for this that I haven't seen yet ... or is no one > but me using that notation style in LP? N/A -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
