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ChordPro: Chord Localization
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I had to deal with this extensively when I added chord localizations to ChordPro.

In ChordPro, there is a source notation (where the score is written in) and a target notation (how it must be shown). So if the source notation is German, B means H♭. By default, this is also the way it will be shown. If you would select to show common notation, you'll get B♭ instead of B.

ChordPro defaults to common notation, but MSPro could show by default using the notation system corresponding to the localization.

I think it would be a bad choice to default the source notation to the localization since many people download ChordPro files from the internet and these are almost always in common notation. So I propose to add this as a (new) metadata item, e.g.

   {meta: notation German}

Summarizing for MSPro:
  • Add a setting for the default source notation
  • Add a setting for the desired show notation
  • Allow {meta: notation xxx} to override the source notation

Does this sound an acceptable approach?
Johan
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Messages In This Thread
ChordPro: Chord Localization - by itsme - 05-11-2019, 07:19 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 05-11-2019, 08:41 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by itsme - 05-11-2019, 07:15 PM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 05-13-2019, 08:31 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 05-13-2019, 09:19 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Skip - 05-13-2019, 10:51 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by itsme - 05-14-2019, 08:31 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 05-13-2019, 12:36 PM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by itsme - 05-14-2019, 08:21 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by itsme - 05-14-2019, 08:35 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by itsme - 05-23-2019, 08:26 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 05-23-2019, 09:23 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by sciurius - 05-23-2019, 07:58 PM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by itsme - 05-24-2019, 12:15 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by itsme - 05-23-2019, 08:27 PM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 05-25-2019, 10:12 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by sciurius - 05-25-2019, 11:14 PM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 05-26-2019, 03:38 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by sciurius - 05-26-2019, 04:49 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 05-26-2019, 07:22 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by mcrossy - 01-22-2024, 07:30 AM
RE: ChordPro: Chord Localization - by Zubersoft - 01-24-2024, 11:25 AM



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