Re: FretBoards

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 12/10/08 4:41 AM, "Richard Schoeller" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd like to represent the capo point as a straight barre, but then still
> indicate the unfingered strings with 'x' or 'o'.  I think that you can
> do it in standard form as well, just not in terse.

> 
> Better still for the capo, would be to show a straight barre without the
> dots.  But that's for another day.

Since the capo is not going to be moved very often during playing, and will
always cover all of the strings, would it make sense just to add a (capo
fret) setting to the verbose string?  The capo fret would become the lowest
fret on the diagram, and a solid bar would be drawn across the strings at
that point.  

Since the capo is not part of the fingering,  we could perhaps add the capo
as part of the fret-diagram-details properties.  But as I think more about
it, the fret diagram depends on the capo setting, so it should be part of
the diagram definition.

It's probably the right thing to do to add a verbose interface to
storePredefinedFretBoard, so things like scales can be added if desired,
with the idea of moving all fret diagrams to the FretBoards context.

I think that your request is doable.  I'll try to do it over the next couple
of weeks.

Carl

> 
> Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>> 
>> On 12/9/08 10:22 PM, "Richard Schoeller" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>>> Is there any way to build a chord diagram using the verbose syntax and
>>> use it FretBoards?  I didn't see anything in the docs for this.  There
>>> are few things that I'd like to try for showing the use of a capo that I
>>> can't do with terse.
>>> 
>>>    
>> 
>> As of now, there is no way to use the verbose syntax with FretBoards.
>> However, it could potentially be added.
>> 
>> Can you tell me more about what you'd like to do?  Perhaps show me the
>> diagram you'd like to use as a markup?
>> 
>> I've avoided using verbose as the primary syntax for fret diagrams because
>> it's so user unfriendly.  But now that I think about it, I could make
>> verbose syntax the primary form, and create a terse_to_verbose function that
>> would still allow users to specify the fret diagram with a terse string.
>> 
>> The only thing I can think of that verbose allows but terse doesn't is
>> multiple dots on a single string.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Carl Sorensen
>> 
>>  
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