Re: [PATCH] Ligature brackets

[Rune Zedeler]

Robin Davies wrote:

> still wouldn't use it myself. ;-)   Perhaps I'm missing the intended
> application for the inversion notation scheme. The fact that the more useful
> of the two (the base note notation) is the oddball case rather than the
> default case disturbs me a little, as well.

You are very focused on notation - but one of the base ideas of lilypond 
is that the input should contain not just enough information for the 
music to be typeset but also for the music to be correctly performed.
I think that the idea of having inverted chords (I don't know wheter I 
think it is a good idea, well) is that the chord scheme should also 
contain enough information to make it possible to make the midi-output 
control the auto-accomp. of a midi keyboard.
Personally I agree with you - everything would be much easier if a chord 
was split into base note and chord notes.

Btw, regarding keeping things simple: An a bit hacky way of simplifying 
sus4-notation a lot would be to internally represent the sus4 as an 
augmented 3rd. So internally Csus4 would be represented with: c-eis-g. I 
know this is musical-theoretically bad, but logically I find it very 
consistent - especilly with my prefered square-notation: A diminished 
3rd adds a "m" to the chord name right after the main note, and an 
augmented third adds a square at the same place.


-Rune