Re: Future element?

On 2/11/2011 10:07 AM, René Bjerre Andersen wrote:
> No software in the world can do what I need it to do.
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> I'm a teacher and amateur musician and often I need to have a song
> transposed to a different key e.g. from G-major to D-major. But I have to do
> this manually: find every G-chord and change it to D. This can sometime be a
> bit troublesome as I have to use color-coding. E.g. if I change all G-chords
> in the text below (I'm Moving On - Rascal Flats) I get an intro like this D
> C      D - I can't tell if it's right or I still have to transpose the last
> D-chord to an A...
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> Intro  G     C      D
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> (Piano |: G -- G/f# - Em -- G/d -- C2 -- D7sus4 :|)
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>       G
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> I've dealt with my ghosts an' I've faced all my demons
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> C                         D
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> Fin'ly content with the past I regret
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> If I had a function in OO where I could choose the key of the song in e.g. a
> dropdown menu and every chord is an object that can be locked to a specific
> place in the lyrics. Then this object could be changed according to the
> chosen key - or if I change the key (=transpose it).
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> Furthermore, if the chord-object is locked to a specific place I can change
> font-style and -size etc. without changing their relative position - as have
> happened in the example above.
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> If someone could programme this feature into OO, he or she would forever be
> included in my evening prayers! ;-)
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> René Andersen
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> Denmark
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Some years ago I wrote a macro for Microsoft Word that made this 
conversion.  It wasn't without bugs, but most of the time it worked OK.  
If it would be useful, I might be able to find it for you.

-- 
*Paul Cohen*