On 2/20/05 4:01 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> FYI, I find the midi output of chords useful, for the purpose of proof >> listening. Though the midi output isn't very pleasant to listen to, it's >> certainly good enough to decide whether the typeset chords fit fairly well >> with the rest of the music. >> >> Erik >> > > One chord symbol can mean 10 different things to people > depending on the context of the music and its style, and for Lilypond > to play those awful-sounding block chords just because of a symbol > that may or may not reflect that tonal texture at all is simply bad > practice. > > I can see that one chord symbol could be interpreted in a variety of different voicings/inversions/etc. But it is still written with one indication/symbol. The reason that Lilypond does what it does as I see it is because Lilypond is capable of transposing the chord symbols along with everything else. While it is apparent that this may not be a valuable feature for you, I have used several other notation packages and subscribed to several other news groups for these other notation programs and although I have not made use of chord name transposition, many others have requested this feature. To my knowledge, Lilypond is the only program that I am aware of that does this. I am thankful that it is a feature that is included as a possibility. Walter Hofmeister _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user