Re: Pattern de scales for the guitar (fret-diagram-interface)

[Colin Hall]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:32:55AM +0000, Colin Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 12:05:15AM -0800, Eluze wrote:
> > Colin Hall-3 wrote
> > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:43:55PM -0800, Eluze wrote:
> > >> forwarding from the French LilyPond Forum:
> > >> 
> > >> http://lilypond-french-users.1298960.n2.nabble.com/Pattern-de-gammes-pour-la-guitare-fret-diagram-interface-td7578810.html
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> > Would it be possible to select a color for each point fret ?
> > >> > 
> > >> > For example, if i use fret-diagram to display a scale and i want the
> > >> root
> > >> > to be in red and the fifth in yellow and the other notes in black.
> > >> > 
> > >> > 
> > >> > Would it be possible to display the name of the note in the circle on
> > >> the
> > >> > fret in place of the finger number ?
> > >> > 
> > >> > For example, if i am displaying the root : R, the third minor: 3b, the
> > >> > fifth augmented: 5#, the seventh: 7 ...
> > >> 
> > >> I think that's an interesting feature (e.g. for teaching purposes, draw
> > >> the
> > >> attention to a special tone ???)
> > > 
> > > Thanks, Eluze.
> > > 
> > > Could you, or the original poster, suggest some syntax for this
> > > feature? From past experience, I believe it is the first question the
> > > devs will ask.
> > > 
> > > Also, are you and the OP aware of the fret diagram interface,
> > > documented here?
> > > 
> > > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/internals/fret_002ddiagram_002dinterface
> > > 
> > > There are also a lot of snippets for fret diagrams, including some
> > > that customise the appearance of the stopping marks:
> > > 
> > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/snippets/fretted-strings#fretted-strings-customizing-fretboard-fret-diagrams
> > 
> > afaics these don't cover the new requirements.
> 
> OK, I see. I just noticed that you mentioned fret-diagram-interface in
> your bug report, sorry for referring you back to that, my error.
> 
> > 
> > here is the answer of the OP:
> > 
> > http://lilypond-french-users.1298960.n2.nabble.com/Pattern-de-gammes-pour-la-guitare-fret-diagram-interface-tt7578810.html#a7578814
> > 
> > if needed I can (try to) translate!
> 
> Using Google to translate gives:
> 
> Quote:
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> December 4, 2012, 5:29 pm   éléandar
> 
> I think there are three themes (at least):
> 
> - Add any color possible 
> - process color (and other properties?) individually 
> (expand cargo space-dimension color) 
> - allow other signs that the numbers roman / arabic you have any other ideas?
> 
> 
> It would be nice if in addition to color, you could place a sign, specify a 
> text (circled) eg: "5J" for straight or just "3b" or "3m" for minor third "3" 
> or "3M" for major third ... As a language to another designations may vary 
> ... Instead of text, it could also simply specify the name of the interval 
> and if necessary lilypond result in the target language? level of 
> implementation, I think it would give the possibility to the user to specify 
> the format of the list of points (description of each). The various 
> possibilities which I think (string, freight, finger, color, text, or 
> interval). So if the user specifies the following format:   + (string, cargo, 
> color) will seize eg 4-4-red   + (string, cargo, color, interval) will seize 
> eg 4-5 {-yellow- 3M}   + (string, freight, finger) will seize eg 4-5-1  ...
> ---------
> Unquote
> 
> I'm not that we have sufficient material to call this a feature
> request just yet, Eluze.
> 
> I'll check with the devs and get back to you.
> 

One of the devs came back with an outline of how the could be done:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-12/msg00078.html

so I have created a tracker for it:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3007

Thanks for report, Eluze. Could you forward this to the OP or the
French user's list to acknowledge the feature request? Thanks.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall