Add name of strings to chord diagrams

[diovudau]

1. I want to show new pupils what the strings are named (both in English EADGBE and in German with H instead of B) so it would be nice to show them an empty chord diagram, just with the strings note names where the X and 0 are currently.

2. This could also be useful for custom tunings or different instruments, which have different tunings, which you already have internally.

[sitandr]

There is already a function chord-notes(chordstring, tuning) that you can apply .join(" ") to get a string. After that, you can place that string (preferably inside a raw) for better look on top of O and X bar, thus getting a new chord rendering function.

I can create an elaborate snippet, if you need.

[diovudau]

I would be happy if you could show an example, yes.

[sitandr]

Okay, I'll make a clean snippet once I get to the computer.

You may have seen how I do basically the thing you need in my demo for web interactive Typst (you can see the code, however, it is a bit convoluted because of the need of interactive input elements): https://sitandr.github.io/typ-interactive/?example=conchord

The only major difference is that you need to add a place instead of just stacking diagram and notes.

[sitandr]

Okay, sorry for the delay.

#let smartchord-with-notes(chord-name, n: 0, at: none) = {
  set text(size: 10.2pt)
  box({
    // gets holded string notation with given arguments 
    let c = get-chord(chord-name, n: n, at: at)

    // or whatvever chordgen you want to use here
    red-missing-fifth(c)
    place(top, box(fill: white, inset: 3pt, raw(chord-notes(c, default-tuning).join(" "))))
  })
}

#smartchord-with-notes("Am")

Renders like this:

Is that close enough?