Re: FretDiagrams Architecture

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 05:25, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> > I think that
> > 
> > a. we are storing chords in the wrong way. In retrospect, I find
> > 
> >    root + list of (step, alteration) tuples
> > 
> > more logical
> 
> So rather than using the pitches as the key for the hash table, it ought
> to be the chord structure, as is inferred in ChordNames, but not the
> chord name itself.  Is that what you have in mind?

Not yet; this something to do when we change the representation of
Chord names internally.

> 
> > 
> > b. using the octave to store different variants is misuse of that
> > less-than-perfect storage model.  I think that we should have some
> > kind of ChordAlternativeEvent to store the extra information.
> 
> Something along the lines of 
> 
>   \chordmode {
>        d \alternative 1
>       }


Yes.


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