I assume that there would still have to be some means of creating
exceptions. If someone wants chords named mainly in the Real Book style,
but with minors notated slightly differently ( Cm / Cmi / C- ) for
example, would they find themselves having to put together a large list
of exceptions to get their preferred style? Or would there be some other
way of 'tweaking' just that aspect of how chord names are displayed?
I haven't done it yet, so I don't know.
But I imagine we can have a property minorSymbol which could have values
like \markup {"m"}, \markup {"mi"}, \markup {"-"}, or 'lowerCaseRootName
Then a user could specify the markup to be used to indicate a minor, etc.
Right now we have a naming problem, separate from the display problem. If
we can get the code to recognize that we have a Ebmaj7b5, then we can figure
out how to display it in a way that the users will like. Right now, we
haven't had much luck with anything but exceptions in terms of getting chord
names.