Lower case letters should be accepted as chord names
When adding chord names, the notation in lower case letters does not work.
MuseScore does accept notation like Am or Em7 for chord names of minor chords, but the equivalent notations a or e7 get translated into A or E7 which is wrong.
This can be easily reproduced by creating a new score with default settings, add a single instrument such as Violin, create anything with default settings, select the first pause (or add some notes and select a note), press Control-K and then insert a single lower case letter like a or e for A-Minor or E-Minor chords. MuseScore will wrongly translate this into A or E which is wrong because these are major chords.
On the other hand entering fis or cis or h is well accepted there and does not get messed up.
Any single lower case letter should be accepted as a valid representation for minor chords, i. e. as replacement for the upper case letter with a subsequent m.
Comments
See #7282: Support lower case letters for chord names, this has been requested long ago
In reply to See #7282: Support lower case by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for the link to the previous post and sorry for the re-post.
However translating minor chord names into major chord names is incorrect; and also the behavior is inconsistent in allowing chord names like fis or h but not a or e7.
So maybe this topic should get raised to an error report instead of a feature request ?
Thanks again,
Christoph
In reply to Thanks for letting me know by Christoph Strunk
fis is not allowed, it is not recognizes as a chord, it is plain text as far as MuseScore is concended. And as such it doesn't get transposed for example.
And no, this is not an error, it is a worldwide etstablisched standard.
But yes, there is another standard albeit momuch mor local (to Germany and maybe a few other countries) using lowercase for minor chords and Fis rather than F, fism rather than F#m and yes, I think it would be great if MuseScore allowed for this too. See also http://musescore.org/en/node/5013
Another request along the same lines is suto support solfege notation in chordnames, see http://musescore.org/en/node/20922 and http://musescore.org/en/node/14538
I don't understand this. Lower case letter work fine in my experience. However, using "m" for minor may cause a problem as some setups require "mi" for minor.
In reply to I don't understand this. by xavierjazz
Yes, the m or maj or mi is allowed to be lower case, but not the 1st Character of a chord name.
In reply to Yes, the m or maj or mi is by Jojo-Schmitz
More specifically, MuseScore allows you to enter a lower case root name, but it then automatically capitalizes it. That's actually a good thing for most of the world, as it simplifies chord entry and gives you an easily recognizable cue when you have typed an unrecognized chord (unrecognized chords won't be capitalized). But for the benefit of people in those countries in which it is customary to write minor chords using lower case letters, an option should be provided to allow that.
There is work on improving a number of things about chord sumbol entry for 2.0, and there is a chance that this will make it in.