A few chord requests

The jazzchords.xml may provide similar fonts and placements as the particular Brandt & Roemer adaptation I linked to, but it still uses "Maj" and "m" instead of "ma" and "mi", so no, I wouldn't call it close in the way that counts to me. So the first customization I did was to create a customized copy of jazzchords.xml in which I changed all occurrences of Maj to ma and m to mi. But then, when entering chordnames in a score, one still needs to *type* Maj and m in order for the parser to recognize these chords - and then it outputs the ma and mi symbols. While sort of viable, it's obviously awkward. Luckily, that's where chord.xml comes in; it let me change the string I type to get these chord symbols. So everything does work, but with a bit of customization.

[ EDIT: I have no idea what I was smoking when I was trying this out last night. Despite being referred to as Maj and m in the jazzchords.xml file, they do in fact display as ma and mi. So I guess my mods to that file turn out to have been unnecessary, and I can see now that all I was doing is changing the internal handle used to refer to these symbols, not changing the rendering at all. But the mods to chords.xml are still relevant to get the parser to understand "ma" and "mi". BTW, I can't find any evidence of this MuseJazz font being installed anywhere in usual Windows fashion. Is there a way I can look at its symbols? ]

As for the issue of changing chord id's breaking the ability to share scores with others, although I am not sure I'd really be doing much of that (except distribution by PDF, of course), that's really all the convincing I need not to mess with this. I'll keep the same chord id's. Also occurs to me that there could be future version compatibility issues as well if I go my own way here. For now, my plan is to keep all id's the same but comment out the chords I don't actually use. That way I still get visual feedback that the parser failed to recognize the chord if I've entered something not in my own canon. Although I suppose I should really just go ahead and do the whole thing then upload it for others to use.

But I can't help wondering about the 'holes" in the chord numbering sequencing, and if there is some sort of rhyme or reason to choice of chord id's for specific chords that would be good for me to know.

Also, it seems that a user interface to allow one to edit chord definitions more easily than messing with the XML files would be useful for most people. Is this something that could be done via a plug-in? I haven't yet looked into API there, so I don't know what's possible. Once upon a time I was a programmer, and while I can't see myself getting directly involved in source code on this project, I could see myself together together the occasional plug-in.

[ EDIT: After downloading the nightly build, I see that a chord editor is already in place. Wow. But it appears to still use the chord.xml names with the Maj & m. Editing that file by hand to replace Maj and m with ma and mi appears to work just fine with this dialog so it looks more like I expect. But really, I think the chord editor should allow me to do that without messing with the XML. Also, while it's wonderful to be able to hand-tune the position of each and every symbol in each and every chord, really, what would be even more useful is a set of global controls for the font, size, and default position of the different parts of the chord symbol name. I think of a chord symbol as "Root Quality Extension Alteration / Bass". For example, in Cmi9b5/Gb, Root = C, Quality = mi, Extension = 9, Alteration = b5, Bass = Gb. Give me global controls for the font, size, and position of each of those five elements and I'll bet I never mess with the customizations for the individual chords. Except there also needs a way to specifiy where parens are used. ]

I have tried to copy the same codes to the jazzchords-file. It seems that it does not work for that font.

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