Re: 'add' vs. 'sus' in jazz chords

[tim...@bitstream.net]

Yes, I see.  I don’t remotely understand the gitlab pages, far over my very poor coding skills, but the image of what chord names would be is promising from my perspective.  I mostly don’t care for the Ignaztek nomenclature.  I “grew up” with the old Real Book 5th Ed. (for all its many faults).  That handwritten lead sheet style is just what my eyes are accustomed to and has shaped my preferences.  As a result I use an extensively modified chord exceptions file based on pop-chords.ly which I \include with every lead sheet.  The output looks like (hopefully this will work):

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On Mar 5, 2026, at 2:21 AM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: Tim, Thanks for the response. I agree with you that first would be more sensible to a player as “C add2 add4”, but that is still long and cumbersome.  [...] This is a matter of style, and for the time being we try to provide the 'Ignatzek' style as faithfully as possible, which uses 'add2 add4'. Replacing 'add2 add4' with 'add2&4' is currently not available – while not very hard to implement (it's effectively a change of one or two lines), it would still be necessary to copy the contents of file `chord-ignatzek-names.scm` (i.e., about 300 lines of Scheme code) to just do that.  The reason for this is the way the formatting is implemented, and this won't change for the forthcoming 2.26 release. After that, I guess, we are going to improve this considerably, see issues #4344 and #5224.  https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/4344  https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/5224      Werner