### 3.13 Chord names

LilyPond has support for both printing chord names. Chords may be entered in musical chord notation, i.e. `< .. >`, but they can also be entered by name. Internally, the chords are represented as a set of pitches, so they can be transposed

>          twoWays = \notes \transpose c c' {
>            \chords {
>              c1 f:sus4 bes/f
>            }
>            <c e g>
>            <f bes c'>
>            <f bes d'>
>          }

>          \score {
>            << \context ChordNames \twoWays
>               \context Voice \twoWays >> }

This example also shows that the chord printing routines do not try to be intelligent. The last chord (`f bes d`) is not interpreted as an inversion.

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