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Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Why don't we get rid of \chordmode? |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:38:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi, from a user perspective, chordmode is unnecessary and restricted.
You can't combine different voices (in particular for adding bass
notes), you can't write chords and bass notes together, you can't put
non-chorded material in between, relative mode is not possible (like for
chord progressions) and so forth and so on.
But when specifying a chord with colon syntax, the input can't be
confused with a normal music expression. The only distinguishing
feature of chordmode is that specifying a pitch _without_ colon will
generate a major triad, and that the octave is one higher than normal.
That's not enough of a distinction to keep it around. Just let normal
music mode accept chords with : notation, and \chordmode is unnecessary
and can be deprecated.
ly-convert can then turn \chordmode into \transpose c c' and make sure
that every pitch spec has a colon attached to it: c: is a legal chord
specifier.
To make this slightly prettier, one can reserve the modifier M
(uppercase) for "major", then c:M can be written for a major chord,
looking slightly better than just c: would.
--
David Kastrup
- Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Carl Sorensen, 2010/04/28
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Neil Puttock, 2010/04/28
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, David Kastrup, 2010/04/28
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Xavier Scheuer, 2010/04/28
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Kieren MacMillan, 2010/04/28
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, David Kastrup, 2010/04/28
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Kieren MacMillan, 2010/04/28