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Re: chords
From: |
Amelie Zapf |
Subject: |
Re: chords |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:20:18 +0100 |
Hi Jan,
> This is all very unfortunate. I've been 'playing' with ediff for
> about 1.5 hours, but I'm giving up for tonight.
At first I thought it would be fairly easy, because chord::inner-name-jazz
and chord::inner-name-american are just modified chord::inner-name-banters.
But the other routines don't generate just strings, they actually do actual
typesetting with the sharps and flats. I'd say a good start would be to just
leave the logic alone and make the changes in the output part of the code
only.
> I'll try to integrate most of your stuff into 1.7.10 CVS, but this
> will take some time. Also I expect there has to be done some touch-up
> again.
Let me have a go once 1.7.10 is out. One time I'll install a development
version. The problem I have is that the Lilypond versions I'm running here
are considerably souped-up versions of stable Lilyponds, changes go in
depending on the task at hand. That's why I upgrade so rarely.
> It would be good to have your changes in 1.6.7, so that we at least
> have a good version to test against.
That will surely work.
> I'm *very* pleased with what you did, but timing could not very easily
> have been worse. Han-Wen and I have been spending several hours this
> week to bring chord code in sync with the new text markup scheme.
Sorry, I couldn't smell that ;-) You know, I scratch when I itch -- means,
when the output doesn't please me, I tweak the program. Over the last time, I
wrote mostly choral works, with or without instruments, so chords didn't
bother me. Now I have some jazz arrangements to do, of tunes written by one
of my predecessors as director of the band I'm directing now, with constructs
like G7 b9 b13 / F, and of course, with the old Lilypond, that did not work
so well. So I spent eight hours on writing a Scheme routine that DID it.
Tonight, I printed out my arrangement, and I was so happy to finally see on
the paper what I envisioned, easily transposed and all. It was already a
complex issue, with trumpet, 2x saxophone, 4x vocal, piano, guitar, bass &
drums. Intricate funk-jazz stuff. I'm glad it's off my desk. So I guess the
elation from that made me take Han-Wen's letdown a bit hard. But I'm really
glad that you'll try to help.
Hugs,
Amy
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