Hurray!
I've got first draft version of guitar chord building macro. (With the
help of this excellent manual http://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf )
% -- working version ---
\startuseMPgraphic{chordgrid}{e,B,G,D,A,E}
def fretmark(expr a,b) =
% a = string number
% b = fret
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:05:06 +0300
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com scribit:
Hello,
I have interesting task. I want to build a picture of a guitar chord
using metapost.
For now, I only knew how to make a chord grid:
\startreusableMPgraphic{chordgrid}
drawoptions(withpen
I usually tackle this sort of thing by first drawing the entire image
in metapost code alone. Then, when that works, write a tex command
that fills in bits and pieces of the metapost image.
I understand your idea. Indeed, MP code draws underlying grid. How to
overlay circles on it using TeX?
Hi Hraban
I wouldn't use MetaPost at all (because I can't) but use LilyPond's
great possibilities...
(Never tried fret diagrams with the LilyPond module, but it should work.)
I thought about it, and i have two objections (maybe, false ones)
against using Lily:
1) Recently we concluded that
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
I usually tackle this sort of thing by first drawing the entire image
in metapost code alone. Then, when that works, write a tex command
that fills in bits and pieces of the metapost image.
I understand your idea. Indeed, MP code draws underlying grid. How to
Am 2010-04-10 um 12:01 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky:
1) Recently we concluded that on-the-fly insertion of Lilypond
images does not work.
It should work again since a while.
If you need the fret diagrams above lyrics, I'd use LilyPond without a
Staff context.
If you need fret diagrams
Hello,
I have interesting task. I want to build a picture of a guitar chord
using metapost.
For now, I only knew how to make a chord grid:
\startreusableMPgraphic{chordgrid}
drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled 0.4pt withcolor black) ;
draw hlingrid(0, 5, 1, 0.8cm, 1cm) ;
draw vlingrid(0, 4,
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Please, help me with it.
I usually tackle this sort of thing by first drawing the entire image
in metapost code alone. Then, when that works, write a tex command
that fills in bits and pieces of the metapost image.
Best wishes,
Taco
Am 2010-04-09 um 20:30 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Please, help me with it.
I usually tackle this sort of thing by first drawing the entire image
in metapost code alone. Then, when that works, write a tex command
that fills in bits and pieces of the metapost image.
