There are more major chords than minor chords, so a "D" chord is a major chord. So quite often, the essential information about what they mean is spelled out by what's *not* written. They have to convey information using the least amount of characters. Add in the fact that a Minor7 chord is a minor triad with the flatted 7th degree of the major scale of the root and you can be thoroughly confused!Chord names have to be short in order for them to fit neatly in small spaces on the page. In the theory of naming notes in a chord, the numbers always refer to the degrees of the MAJOR scale of the root of the chord, even if it's a MINOR chord. You can also have a minor major7, which is a minor triad with the natural seventh of the major scale of the root. The exceptions are when you want the major 7th included, therefore Xmaj7, Xmaj9, Xmaj13 - these are major chords containing the natural 7th of the major scale of the root. The confusion comes in when you call the natural 7th degree of the major scale a "major 7th" which it is, but in naming chords, the word major usually means it has the major third and is a major rather than a minor chord.
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