Re: triple flats/sharps?

[Thomas Morley]

2013/5/7 Marc Hohl <address@hidden>:
> Hello list,
>
> yesterday I stubled upon a problem with chord transposition.
>
> We had a jazz tune in c major with an a-flat:dim7 chord.
>
> When transposing this tune to e-flat major, lilypond complains
> about a missing triple flat and prints a c-flat minor 6/b5
> instead (which is enharmonically correct, but ugly to read).
>
> \score {
>   \new ChordNames {
>     \chordmode {
>        as1:dim7
>        \transpose c es as:dim7
>     }
>   }
> }
>
> Should we raise an issue for this on the tracker?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc

Hi Marc,

there are some examples of extreme notation in this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-03/msg01185.html
ff

Here are direct links to a collection of them:
http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/InterestingMusicNotation.html
http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/CMNExtremesBody.htm

Triple sharps _are_ used in printed editions, LilyPond can't deal with them.
Worth an issue I think.

Regards,
  Harm