German (?) notation

[Thomas Willhalm]

Hello,

since lilypond seems to converge to version 1.4, it might be high time to 
ask my questions. I've typeset around 40 songs using LilyPond and I'am
very satisfied with its layout decisions except in two cases. I don't
know whether it is already possible to change them or whether they turn
out to be feature requests (or more politely: feature suggestions).

1. What I've learned in school and what I've have seen in many song is
that the stem of a note on the middle line (usually "b") is downwards.
Of course, I can control this manually with "\stemDown b \stemBoth",
but I would prefer an automatic way.

2. What I also know from school and many songs is a method to notate
chords: use "C" for "c major" and "c" for "c minor". Is it possible to 
let LilyPond use this notation? (In the output, not in the input;
"a:min" is fine for me.)

Thanks in advance for your help.
Thomas

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