Bad chord names when exporting to LilyPond format

• Jan 21, 2013 - 18:44
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
won't fix
Project

There are incompatibilities between the chord names between MuseScore and Lilypond. eg am7b5 (MuseScore) should be am5-7 (LilyPond). a7b9 (MuseScore) should be a-9 (or A7.9-). ama7#11 should be Amaj7.11 +. This causes errors when using Lilypond after saving in .ly format


Comments

Are you sure the chord was a legitimate recognized chord in MuseScore in the first place? MuseScore recognizes chords according to the currently selected chord description file in style / general / chordname. If you're sure the chords are legit in the first place - that they are spelled correctly according to your chordname style - then please post a sample score and steps to reproduce.

Yes, I'm sure. Here is a sample, in musescore format and generated lilypond format.

Lilypond output :
Traitement de « /home/vincent/Musique/Partitions perso/testing-chord-names.ly »
Analyse...
/home/vincent/Musique/Partitions perso/testing-chord-names.ly:50:9: Erreur : 9 n'est pas une durée
a1:7b
9 a1:m7b5 a4:maj7#11 }%%end of chordlist
/home/vincent/Musique/Partitions perso/testing-chord-names.ly:50:17: Erreur : 5 n'est pas une durée
a1:7b9 a1:m7b
5 a4:maj7#11 }%%end of chordlist
/home/vincent/Musique/Partitions perso/testing-chord-names.ly:50:26: Avertissement : Expression non musicale ignorée
a1:7b9 a1:m7b5 a4:maj7
#11 }%%end of chordlist
Interprétation en cours de la musique...[8]
Pré-traitement des éléments graphiques...
Détermination du nombre optimal de pages...
Répartition de la musique sur une page...
Dessin des systèmes...
Sortie mise en page vers « testing-chord-names.ps »...
Conversion à « ./testing-chord-names.pdf »...
erreur fatale : erreur sur les fichiers "/home/vincent/Musique/Partitions perso/testing-chord-names.ly"
Arrêté avec le code de retour 1.

Attachment Size
testing-chord-names.mscz 1.6 KB
testing-chord-names.ly 3.06 KB
Title bad chords name when exporting in lilypond format Bad chord names when exporting to LilyPond format
Status (old) active won't fix

Due to a lack of support, LilyPond export has been removed for the next version.

Users could instead use MusicXML export and MusicXML2Ly.