On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Thomas Morley wrote: > So I tried a proof of concept, although I'm not convinced of the idea > to have chords as markup only.
Thank you! This seems to be a big improvement and I hope it'll reduce the perennial confusion people have with chord names, if we can simply point them to it as a way to print names that match the input. > Also, one drawback may be the huge amount of string-operations. I fear > it may come at a cost (compilation time) and other problems once My guess is that since chord names are most often used at all for things like popular songs, which are relatively short and may not contain a whole lot of other difficult engraving, this won't be prohibitive in practice. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user