Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2015-01-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/19/15 8:15 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: >Hi all, > >What¹s happening with this issue? As far as I know, nothing is happening with this issue except a discussion of possible architecture for a scheme chord representation, and for decoupling presentation from representation. I don't have

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2015-01-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, What’s happening with this issue? I would love to coordinate my efforts on the chord names stylesheets I’m putting together with whatever’s going on with regard to structural change(s). Thanks, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www:

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2015-01-06 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > Even though it may not reflect common practice, or the numerous common > practices that are in use, it is very much worth a read. Thank you for linking to this — it was very informative! I agree that it’s a rather essential reference for any serious chord-engraver, even if it’s not 100

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2015-01-06 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/5/15 8:25 PM, "Flaming Hakama by Elaine" wrote: >> >I'm glad that effort is going into chord symbols! > >I'm no Carl. But here are some observations I hope might be useful. Carl is no Carl, either, I think. > > > > > >> As a starter, we could have things like the following (taken from

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2015-01-06 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 19:25:44 -0800 Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > As a starter, we could have things like the following (taken from Brandt > and Roemer): > > I admit to not being familiar with this seminal work. I wonder how much > it reflects common practice? Even though it may not reflec

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2015-01-05 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 02:09:27 + > From: Carl Sorensen > To: Thomas Morley > Subject: Re: Typesetting chord symbols > > On 12/29/14 12:42 PM, "Thomas Morley" wrote: > > > > I'm thinking about a major revision of our chord-naming-procedures for

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2015-01-04 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/29/14 12:42 PM, "Thomas Morley" wrote: > >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 d

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-12-29 18:11 GMT+01:00 Carl Sorensen : > 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 t

Typesetting chord symbols

2014-12-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
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

Re: Typesetting chord symbols

2014-12-29 Thread Knute Snortum
? Where to put Δ 6 7 9 and so on? > > I know the way LilyPond does it, but I'm sure there are (many?) > more conventions (standards) for typesetting chord symbols. > > Can you point me to some (internet accessible) standard do

Typesetting chord symbols

2014-12-29 Thread Johan Vromans
)? + (augmented) 0 (dim) and ø (half dim)? Where to put Δ 6 7 9 and so on? I know the way LilyPond does it, but I'm sure there are (many?) more conventions (standards) for typesetting chord symbols. Can you point me to some (internet accessible) standard documents on this topic? Thanks,