Re: minor chords

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2014, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:

> Minus for minor is a horrible idea. It's also old fashioned
> and abandoned even by the "Real Book".

What do you mean by "the" Real Book? I have a copy of the original Real 
Book. It uses the "-" for minor. I tried to exactly recreate an old Real 
Book page. That's the reason I posted my question. Personally I prefer "m" 
for minor.

> It could be ignored as a
> spacer. Minus could be taken to mean "omit". Cmmaj7 is more
> readable than than C-maj7. Don't do it. Regards, Rale

Uggh. I agree C-maj7 is extremely ugly. Hadn't thought of that.

Anyway, it's another example that with LilyPond anything is possible, even 
ugliness :-)

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MT