> On 2 Feb 2019, at 20:36, v.villen...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 2019/02/01 16:18:10, dak wrote: >> raising or lowering one chord note >> by an octave does not guarantee that it ends up at the far end of the > chord, >> like when using invertChords on a c:11 chord for the fifth inversion. > > Oh. Then this becomes a whole other can of worms; what should be the > correct inversion of an 11th chord? > > Should > <c' e' g' b' d'' f''> > become > <e' g' b' d'' f'' c'''> (as you seem to suggest) > or > <e' g' b' c'' d'' f''> (as the current code produces)? > > I’ll ask on the list as well.
A music dictionary says an inversion of a chord is done by raising the lowest note to a higher octave. Thus, the chord has as many inversions as pitch classes, excluding the root. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel