Hi, from a user perspective, chordmode is unnecessary and restricted. You can't combine different voices (in particular for adding bass notes), you can't write chords and bass notes together, you can't put non-chorded material in between, relative mode is not possible (like for chord progressions) and so forth and so on.
But when specifying a chord with colon syntax, the input can't be confused with a normal music expression. The only distinguishing feature of chordmode is that specifying a pitch _without_ colon will generate a major triad, and that the octave is one higher than normal. That's not enough of a distinction to keep it around. Just let normal music mode accept chords with : notation, and \chordmode is unnecessary and can be deprecated. ly-convert can then turn \chordmode into \transpose c c' and make sure that every pitch spec has a colon attached to it: c: is a legal chord specifier. To make this slightly prettier, one can reserve the modifier M (uppercase) for "major", then c:M can be written for a major chord, looking slightly better than just c: would. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
