Re: German (?) notation

[Harti Brandt]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Rune Zedeler wrote:

RZ>> 2. What I also know from school and many songs is a method to notate
RZ>> chords: use "C" for "c major" and "c" for "c minor". Is it possible to
RZ>> let LilyPond use this notation? (In the output, not in the input;
RZ>> "a:min" is fine for me.)
RZ>
RZ>This is really bad habbit, and a faulty heritance from tonic scale
RZ>notation, where (C means C-major scale, c means C-minor scale).
RZ>I have currently no idea of how to do this.
RZ>How do you want the accidentals typeset? I assume # and b on the major
RZ>chords, "is" / "es" on minor chords. How do you want alterations? I
RZ>assume C7 = C7, c7 = Cm7

Well, that's a matter of taste and in fact many books and other sources
here use exactly that notation. I asked for this a year ago, but ...
As for accidentals most books I know of use 'Fis' or 'fis', but
occasionally you see also # and b.

harti
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