Re: ChordNames depend on input language

[Simon Albrecht]

See also discussion at https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4337/.

Best, Simon

> On 28.04.2019 - 18:07, Malte Meyn wrote:
>
>
> Hi list,
> 
> I just stumbled upon a change in ChordNames: Their language depends on 
> the input language in 2.21.0. Until 2.19.83, all of
> 
> \language "français" \chords { sib }
> \language "deutsch" \chords { b }
> \language "nederlands" \chords { bes }
> 
> give the same output “B♭”. In 2.21.0, it’s “Si♭”, “H♭” and “B♭”. Not 
> only that “H♭” is wrong (it should be B), I always thought that input 
> and output were independent in LilyPond. I use \language "deutsch" for 
> all my projects but I would like to have English chord names nevertheless.
> 
> How would I achieve that in 2.21.0? And am I the only one who thinks 
> that the input language and output language should be independently 
> settable? That could be done f. e. by a context property 
> ChordNames.chordLanguage that defaults to "english" and can be set to 
> any language that is accepted by the \language command.
> 
> Cheers,
> Malte
> 
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