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Re: Re: Language "deutsch" should still give default chord names


From: Thomas Morley
Subject: Re: Re: Language "deutsch" should still give default chord names
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:15:05 +0100

Am Sa., 12. März 2022 um 17:47 Uhr schrieb Ole V. Villumsen
<ole.villumsen@protonmail.ch>:
>
> Thanks for looking into this.
>
> I can live with this being turned into the sum of:
>  1. A bug report for German chord names. The German names for h, his and b 
> chords would be H, H# and B, but I showed that in the last case Hb was 
> printed instead, which I believe that no German will recognize as the 
> expected chord name.
>  2. A documentation issue. As you said, it is not currently in the notation 
> reference that Lilypond tries to print chord names in the input language.
>  3. A feature request. The feature request may be to add a \defaultChords or 
> \englishChords command that would give me what I had expected.
>
> I am not sure that we want the implicit coupling between input note name 
> language and output chord name language, though. Also we seem to have 12 
> input languages and 5 chord name languages, so what should be the expected 
> output in the remaining 7 cases? I am afraid that even with proper 
> documentation this could turn confusing. I will let others decide about that.
>
> Best regards,
> Ole

Hi Ole,

this is now
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6305

Best,
  Harm



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