Re: Choice of pitch input mode

2016-04-30 Thread Paul Morris
> On Apr 29, 2016, at 6:56 PM, Jeff Olson wrote: > > And for the limited range of a guitar (3.5 octaves) I can \transpose c c' > to minimize the number of octave marks in absolute mode (so range is e, to > b''). > Thus I never encounter long high runs of 32nds above c'''. The latest dev version

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Henry Law
On 30/04/16 17:28, Thomas Morley wrote: because some (rare) chords will have multiples "adds"s. Ah, yes; shows how I'd not thought through the problem. Now if music and its notation had been designed by an IEEE committee in the late twentieth century (instead of by multiple communities in mu

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-04-30 14:59 GMT+02:00 Henry Law : > The second is that might lilypond be extended to include ":add9" as one of > the standard chord formulations that is recognised? We changed additionalPitchPrefix from "add" to "" some time ago, because some (rare) chords will have multiples "adds"s. See:

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

2016-04-30 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Joram, > What I like about relative: > 2) most mistakes are easily spottet as all the rest of the voice is off > by one octave. […] In absolute mode, only one note is in the wrong octave. This is the ONLY thing I miss about relative mode… but it is (was) VERY helpful for proof-reading. Cheer

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.04.2016 um 14:53 schrieb ming : It works in version 2.18.2 Error in version 2.19.40 Sent from Mail for Windows 10 What doesn’t work? Your mail lacks context (In-Reply-To header, quote, or code example) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilyp

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.04.2016 um 15:07 schrieb Henry Law: On 30/04/16 13:49, Henry Law wrote: \new ChordNames { \set additionalPitchPrefix = "add" \chordmode { c:5.9 c:m7.5- c:5+.9- } } Another wrinkle I've just found. If you want a minor chord with an added ninth (say) you can't code, for in

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Brett Duncan
On 30/04/2016 9:36 pm, Thomas Morley wrote: g2:5.9 is not correct. See the putput from the following code listing some (all?) possibilities to _input_ the correct chord. tst = { \chordmode { \set additionalPitchPrefix = "add" c:1.3.5.9 c:3.5.9 c:5.9 %% not correct ! c:9^7

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Henry Law
On 30/04/16 13:49, Henry Law wrote: \new ChordNames { \set additionalPitchPrefix = "add" \chordmode { c:5.9 c:m7.5- c:5+.9- } } Another wrinkle I've just found. If you want a minor chord with an added ninth (say) you can't code, for instance, d:m.9 as it gives an error. You ha

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Henry Law
On 29/04/16 18:22, Henry Law wrote: In a lead sheet I want to use the chord which I call an "added ninth". Using the key of C as an example, I want the chord C-E-G-D: a plain major triad with the ninth added on top. I've documented my experiences in the relevant places in the thread elsewhere:

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread ming
It works in version 2.18.2 Error in version 2.19.40 Sent from Mail for Windows 10 ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Henry Law
On 30/04/16 06:24, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: When you enter a chord with chord mode, it is immediately translated into a set of notes, and whatever code you used to enter it is forgotten. That's a really clear exposition of the subject. As a sometime systems architect I like this kind o

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Henry Law
On 29/04/16 18:59, Malte Meyn wrote: The magic is called additionalPitchPrefix. It can be found f. e. at section 2.7.2 of the Notation Reference. The following code prints “C9 C9 Cadd9 C9”. % \version "2.18.2" \new ChordNames { \set additionalPitchPrefix = "add" } I had

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Thomas Morley
Regrettable, nested quoting is messed up :( Anyway, maybe of some help though: 2016-04-30 8:56 GMT+02:00 Brett Duncan : > On 30/04/2016 3:24 pm, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, Brett Duncan wrote: > > I coded g2:5.9 in chordmode and got G9, which isn't the right >

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Brett Duncan
On 30/04/2016 6:30 pm, Malte Meyn wrote: Am 30.04.2016 um 08:56 schrieb Brett Duncan: Henry, have you had any success with the pop-chords.ly file? (If not, I have some files I could send to you.) You don�t need this or chord exceptions in general if you follow my much simpler answer that no

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-30 Thread BB
I have added that subject to my spam filter. Anyway have fun in blabbermouting ... On 30.04.2016 10:17, Johan Vromans wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:00:14 + David Linn wrote: 1) I am not David Kastrup, I am David Linn. Hi David, good to hear from you! 5) Personal attacks against a list

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

2016-04-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.04.2016 um 05:43 schrieb David Wright: But it's no surprise that composing directly into LP is only really possible in absolute mode. It’s not. I’ve always done it in \relative mode using octave checks, I never had any problems. ___ lilypon

Re: Added ninth chord (symbol)

2016-04-30 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 30.04.2016 um 08:56 schrieb Brett Duncan: Henry, have you had any success with the pop-chords.ly file? (If not, I have some files I could send to you.) You don’t need this or chord exceptions in general if you follow my much simpler answer that no-one replied to (http://lists.gnu.org/arc

Re: Replying to posts

2016-04-30 Thread Johan Vromans
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:00:14 + David Linn wrote: > 1) I am not David Kastrup, I am David Linn. Hi David, good to hear from you! > 5) Personal attacks against a list administrator (such as the ones > launched against me for the work I done on this list and its cousins and > their predecessor

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

2016-04-30 Thread Noeck
Hi, Kieren and his choice for absolute is already mentioned. What I like about relative: 1) mostly for for vocal scores, very few '/, are needed 2) most mistakes are easily spottet as all the rest of the voice is off by one octave. While some find this annoying, I think it helps a lot to find mi

Re: Choice of pitch input mode

2016-04-30 Thread Noeck
Hi David, Am 30.04.2016 um 05:43 schrieb David Wright: > it would be great > if it could convert into a canonical style, where canonical could be > defined in ways such as: every note with pitch&duration; duration (or > even pitch) on only the first note of each line (omitted elsewhere); Frescoba