Am 13.08.22 um 22:04 schrieb David Kastrup:
We had this discussion a longer time ago, with chords and notes
conflicting in that : is used for tremolo notation, too.
For context:
https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-09/msg00160.html
[GLISS] Unifying \chordmode and \notemode
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-04/msg00390.html
Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?
Probably there were other discussions after that, but these were the
first I found.
Chord modifiers are a bit of a puzzlement to figure out later, but
something like <c:> would (I think) be a major chord, <c:m> a minor
chord and so on.
Just for confirmation: This does _not_ mean that \chordmode would be
abandoned, does it? (I probably got confused by some of the ideas in
those old threads.)
As someone who uses \figuremode on a daily basis, I learned to loathe
the necessary < > signs around each and every element I enter (of course
I get that it would be hard to get rid of them in figure mode). I think
it would be a considerable gain in heavy-handedness if I would have to do
<f:maj7>1*2 <g:7> <g:m7>1 <ges:7>1 <f:maj7> <ges:7>
instead of
f1*2:maj7 g:7 g1:m7 ges1:7 f1:maj7 ges1:7
Lukas
