Re: Improve internal chord structure

[David Kastrup]

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>> I hope to send something more specifically about chords after some rest.
>
> Here are my 2cents:
> Defining the chords by a list of notes for jazz tunes can't  ever
> cover all sorts of voicings.

Are you confusing "pitch" and "note" here?  Notes are a LilyPond data
structure that have more properties than just a pitch.  Several are
already used for disambiguating chords entered in chord mode.

> Fortunately, this isn't at all needed for typesetting e.g. a
> jazz-tune.  It is sufficient to only have the root note, e.g. C from
> C:m7, in a musical/transposeable context, the rest of the chord(here
> m7) could just be represented as text as-it-is.
>
> Maybe, from this point of view, there could be an alternative method
> for typestting chords be implemented?

I don't see what you are trying to achieve here.

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David Kastrup