2014-12-29 18:11 GMT+01:00 Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu>: > Johan, > > As far as I can see there are no generally-accepted, authoritative > standards about formatting of the elements of chord notation. > > There is an exhaustive book on chord notation, "Standardized Chord Symbol > Notation: A Uniform System for the Music Profession", by Carl Brandt and > Clinton Roemer. But this notation is not uniformly applied in practice. > > Thanks, > > Carl Sorensen
I want to second. There is no standard! It will depend not only on the language, more, I've the impression that every edition uses his own house-style. In this light it's far to difficult to adjust LilyPond's default to custom-needs. Because most of the internal functions not only processing data, but formating them already (with make-line-markup, make-raise-markup, etc), one needs to c/p a lot functions and definitions into a .ly-file before you can even start to write sth like 'my-custom-alteration->text-accidental-markup'. Quite tedious. I did it already several times on request at the german forum, although LilyPond provides _two_ german chord-naming-styles already. I'm thinking about a major revision of our chord-naming-procedures for quite a while. Something at the lines of: -Don't do any formating in basic functions/definitions -Store all data in lists -As _last_ step write a formatter Carl, what do you think? Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
