Re: Jazz chords (7#9, m7b5, alt, etc.)

[lwhitby]

Hello:
Success.  This has been my experience so far.  I hope that this email is not 
redundant.

The chordNameExceptions route is a good place to start chord substitutions.  It 
can be tedious and awkward, however, unless only one chord substitution is 
being done and that substitution is valid for all subsequent chord types.  The 
reason for this is that when the chord name change is made in /chordmode, it is 
difficult to change back to the original or something else.  The software must 
exit from /chordmode and then the change can be made and then the software can 
go back into /chordmode.  This can cause other problems on the final score 
output but I think these are solvable at the user end.  For example, 
substituting a 7#9 chord for a 7 chord also means that all subsequent 7 chords 
are going to be 7#9 chords.  There is probably a way around this but I have not 
found it yet.  I tried many things, many combinations and permutations on this 
matter and so far all my tests corrected the intended problem but caused 
others.  Some of the problems are bugs and some are not.  Some of the problems 
occur because there is something that I am not aware of.  This will take some 
time for me.

The chord-names-jazz.ly is very well done.  Nice work.  So far it has performed 
very well.  An immediate reaction is that chord-names-jazz.ly might make 
chordNameExceptions redundant but that may not always be the case.

So far, very positive experiences.  The pdf outputs are very well done and 
consume normal amounts of disk space and memory as any other pdf.

Regards,
Lawrence Whitby








Quoting Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:

> If you view the on-line HTML version of the manual, you can click on the
> links to the different example files to see them.
> However, all examples in input/test/ are included in the Tips and Tricks
> document and all examples in input/regression/ are included in the
> Regression Tests document.
> 
> Since the page numbers change between versions, it's much better to refer
> to the section number and name in emails like this one.
> 
>    /Mats
> 
> Lawrence Whitby wrote:
> 
> >Hello:
> >I cannot figure out how to properly enter the extended jazz chords (7#9,
> m7b5,
> >7b5b9, etc).  I have tried to go through the chordNameExceptions as
> explained in
> >the manual on pages 104-105 but I cannot figure them out properly.  I found
> a
> >file called chord-modifiers-init.ly which appears to refer to the
> explanation on
> >pages 104-105.  Should this file be \included in the target file?  
> >
> >I cannot find the file  'input/test/chord-names-jazz.ly' as described on
> page
> >106.  I am using version 2.8.3.
> >
> >Please advise.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Lawrence Whitby
> >
> >
> >
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