Re: 13th chord?

[David Kastrup]

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> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, David Kastrup wrote:
>> To me it would seem that the default mode of operation should be for
>> them to have matched rules where feasible, in order to have least
>> element of surprise.
>
> I agree, but A. it may not be feasible in some important cases, and
> B. even matched rules wouldn't really solve the problem, because users
> would still have to explain to both the input and output systems their
> own preferred conversion between note sets and displayed chord symbols.
> (It doesn't help that the standard and traditional musical rules are
> *screwy* and the nonstandard rules many people want to use are even
> screwier.)
>
> Users want what they type to match what is displayed, even when it doesn't
> follow the default rules and possibly even when it doesn't follow any
> rules.  For the common use case of chord mode being used solely to
> generate notes for ChordNames, and ChordNames getting its notes solely
> from chord mode, we don't really need the notes at all.

There still is Midi output.

-- 
David Kastrup