Ability to have natural sign in Chord base notes

• Mar 5, 2020 - 18:37
Reported version
3.4
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

When entering a chord symbol, "natural" produces a natural sign - but only in the chord part and not after the base note. All other accidentals work as expected.


Comments

My use case is that I write chord symbols in international notation with a natural after a "B" note to reduce confusion for german readers. This works great for the chord itself, but for chords like E/B, there is no possibility to add a natural sign after the B except by creating a normal text containing a natural sign that has to be placed manually. This works, but is a little cumbersome.

Frequency Few Once
Status active needs info

Works for me, Input as Ctrk+K, E, /, B, Ctrl+space, n, a, t, u, r, a, l
I believe the trick is the Ctrl+space

No matter what, though, this is going to be a hack at best, as it has no chance of working across transposition. That would require an update to the internal representation and file format to support.

@Jojo-Schmitz With the space, it shows as a natural sign, but the chord layout is not correct. The base note is not moved down like in other cases (without the natural sign). In the attached image, you can see that.

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True. Even worse if entered as Ctrk+K, e, /, b, Ctrl+space, n, a, t, u, r, a, l (i.e. lower case b)
But that is what Marc said: this is just not recognized properly by the chord symbols parser.