Re: guitar chord diagrams

[Edward Sanford Sutton, III]

On Wednesday February 4 2004 12:50, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > I also would like to develop guitar chord diagrams, and am willing to do
> > some programming to get them.
>
> Great!
>
> > I'd like a little sanity check before I dive in to the changes.  It
> > seems to me that the proper place to go is to make changes to the
> > chord_engraver so that instead of just listing a chord name, the grob
> > the engraver places included the diagram and the name.  Does this seem
> > like a reasonable place to hang this capability?
>
> No. Make a new engraver, Chord_diagram_engraver. You could copy &
> paste code from Chord_name_engraver to get going easily.

Is this the time to bring up that woodwind fingering charts would be nice too? 
My guess is that that one would need its own engraver too. O.K., so I play 
brass normally, but that shouldn't control what lilypond has for features. 
Such features should also make lilypond book even nicer.