How's this?
- People can, and will put anything in between quotes. A notation program
will at a minimum place exactly what was written in between the quotes in the standard
place
for guitar chords for that program.
- Programs which support placement modifiers ("_","^","<",">") will use them
consistently
to mean
below, above, to the left and to the right of the staff symbol.
- Programs which support transposition of chords will clearly document the chords that
can
be transposed (so people can clean up afterwards)
- programs which support sound output will support a standard set of chords
that can be unambiguously documented. At a minimum a chord which is not
recognized can be played as the root (or silence?)
- programs may support other syntaxes of chords (not in the standard set) by
assigning documented synonyms to the standard set. [someday we may standardize the
syntax
for defining chords and assigning synonyms, but that can wait]
Mike Whitaker wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 05:34:23PM +0100, Frank Nordberg wrote:
> > Example:
> > The chord C E G Bb D
> > is notated:
> > C9
> >
> > If we want to sharpen the 9th, we can just add a + in front of it:
> > C+9
>
> I';d further note that I just showed my wife this mail, without
> any prompting bar 'what's that chord' and her reaction (she's a
> keys player) was "C augmented 9th", i.e C E *G#* Bb D".
>
> Can we just abandon the idea of "+" and "-", please? It is TOO ambiguous,
> as I keep saying. There are no problems with # and b that cannot demonstrably
> be resolved with judicious use of brackets.
>
> >From my test harness for parsechord:
>
> mike@andor:~$ ./parsechord 'C(#9)'
> C E G Bb D#
> mike@andor:~$ ./parsechord 'C#9'
> C# E# G# B D#
> mike@andor:~$ ./parsechord 'Caug9'
> C E G# Bb D
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