On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, Kevin Cole wrote: > "predefined-guitar-ninth-fretboards.ly" get the job done. But on a few > occasions I've had to resort to studying some online tutorial and > constructing the diagrams from scratch.
Not a complete solution, but my chord database at https://files.northcoastsynthesis.com/chords/C already exposes the Lilypond code for each fretboard diagram in an HTML comment. In Firefox, if you right-click and choose "inspect" on a diagram, then "Edit as HTML" on the enclosing "fretboard-item" div, you can find the \fret-diagram command and copy out the code for use in your own Lilypond document. Most other browsers should be able to do something similar. If this is a feature people want and will use, then I can try to add something to make the source code more visible, most likely a "lilypond" button to make it visible and copyable without using the browser's source-viewing tools. Automatically generating a file of preferred fretboard diagrams for many chords wouldn't be easy because I don't have a strong sense of which ones are easiest or preferable to play; I'm not really a guitarist myself. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
