Re: Mixed chord/note mode

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 13/08/2022 à 23:11, David Kastrup a écrit :
> Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:
>
> > Le 13/08/2022 à 22:04, David Kastrup a écrit :
> > > Does that sound reasonable/useful/whatever ?
> >
> >
> > I don't want to make my opinion sound too strong, but to be
> > honest, I'm not fond of it. I would find it confusing if
> > both stuff and <stuff> were valid but had totally different
> > meanings.
> Well, we are currently in the position where both
>
> <c:8> and c:8
>
> are accepted syntactically and create a music expression, but the former
> is garbage that is not getting typeset but possibly has some effect in
> MIDI when using articulate.ly .



Yes, so <c:8> is something I'll never care about or see in the manual.

If I have to learn both and recall which is which, mental trouble
arises. It's not that _I_ can't remember it, but we need to think
about beginners and casual users ...



> A constrained chord mode available inside of chord angle brackets is not
> too bad in my book.
>
> The last time we had a discussion about joining notemode and chordmode
> into one composite mode (often _only_ being able to talk in terms of
> chords rather than combinations of notes and chords is too constrained
> for practical purposes), we did not really arrive at any syntax people
> considered favorable.  Personally, I'd rather write tremolos as /8
> rather than :8...



{ c1*7/8 }

vs

{ c1*7 /8 }


Maybe use “//” if we go the route of changing tremolo syntax?



> >  From time to time, a user asks on the mailing lists why
> > fingeringOrientations isn't working for them because they
> > missed that for it to work, notes have to be put into
> > single-note chords ...
> >
> > Random idea, I don't know if it actually makes a lot of sense:
> >
> > { c:M c:M8 c:m c:m8 }
> >
> > (force "major" to be explicit so ‘:’ has chord meaning if followed
> > by a chord modifier, and tremolo meaning if followed by a number)
> c:5 is already valid and meaningful.


In chord mode? Yes. Not sure I understand your objection. Could
you explain?