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Re: print transposed guitar chords on piano sheets (issue4626094)


From: Neil Puttock
Subject: Re: print transposed guitar chords on piano sheets (issue4626094)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:26:46 +0100

On 7 July 2011 19:09, Wols Lists <address@hidden> wrote:

> Which I probably didn't understand :-) BUT from what I remember did you
> think that feeding a chord of, say, C into the formatter should chuck
> out A as its result? Which is NOT what this does - it has to chuck out
> both C *and* A. Bear in mind - that for EVERY chord the formatter has to
> be run TWICE, so modifying all the formatters to loop will be a pain,
> then anybody writing a new formatter has to remember to make it loop,
> etc etc.

Why don't you apply the patch first before jumping to conclusions?

> I really can't understand why having to modify EVERY formatter is better
> than having to modify ONE engraver.

We don't manupulate markup in engravers unless it's trivial (e.g.,
centring the octavation on a clef in the Clef_engraver).

Cheers,
Neil



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