Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> writes: > Le 13/08/2022 à 23:11, David Kastrup a écrit : > >> 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.
So why care? > 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 ... Colon already _is_ being used in chord mode. It's not like we are opening a new can of worms here. >> 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 } Yikes. Maybe we had that discussion already. > Maybe use “//” if we go the route of changing tremolo syntax? Well, this is one of those cases where I get the "even worse" vibe from most alternative suggestions. >>> 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. This wasn't a chord mode proposal. It was for recognising chords in notemode. > Not sure I understand your objection. Could you explain? -- David Kastrup