Re: Chords in LilyPond

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 25.05.2017 um 16:46 schrieb address@hidden:
> This thread:
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-01/msg00248.html
> User wants to engrave a chord they describe as "Gm7(b5)/F" and is told to
> type
>    g : m7.5- / f
> Note the desired output does not contain a colon or hyphen.

Well, input syntax does not equal desired output.

>    Using that
> suggestion, as in
>    \new ChordNames { \chordmode { g : m7.5- / f } }
> will actually engrave
>    Gø/F
> (where the ø is superscript).  User doesn't pursue it further, but this
> output does not closely resemble the requested
>    Gm7(b5)/F

ø is a quite common abbreviation for ‘half-diminished chord’, so this is an 
exemplary use case for chordExceptions and perfectly reasonable that Lily uses 
it by default. It does not ‘closely resemble the requested Gm7(b5)/F’ visually, 
but LilyPond still is a WYSIWYM program, and the two are perfectly equivalent 
in meaning.

Best, Simon