Help with different notation

[kosirm]

Hi, first of all thank you so much for this script! I would like to use this transposer for some songs, which use a bit different notation:

1.) For minors small letters are used, so instead of Am, Cm, Gm, etc. > a, c, g, etc. (small letters) are used. 2.) Then instead of A#, C#, G#, etc. -> AIS, CIS, GIS, etc. are used.

It would be great if I could add a new notation to this script, so notation for chords would be somehow "extracted" or defined in the start of script. Btw, In many european countries this notation is in use (balkan countries like croatia, serbia, slovenia, then also germany, italy and spain I think)

[jessegavin]

@kosirm this is really helpful information I didn't know about!

To make sure I understand what you're saying, can you confirm the following adjustments to this song?

(Note, I am putting an F# that doesn't normally exist in the Beatle's song)

Original version

       C              G                 Am          F#
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
C                 G              F   C/E   Dm   C
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Lower cased version

       c              g                 am          f#
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
c                 g              f   c/e   dm   c
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

"IS" instead of "#" version

       C              G                 Am          FIS
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
C                 G              F   C/E   Dm   C
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

[kosirm]

@jessegavin Thanks for reply! We use just lower letters for minors and "IS" for sharps , so instead of this:

       C              G                 Am          F#
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me

we write it like this:

       C              G                 a          FIS
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me

(Yes, I do understand, that this FIS (or F#) is actually F in original song.)

If we start from first guitar neck fret with E... Minor chords are written like this: e f fis g gis a b h c cis d dis Major chords are written like this: E F FIS G GIS A B H C CIS D DIS

I'm prepairing songbook which will be in different languages, and I noticed these differences in notations. So, as I already asked, it would be super great, if there would be some config file or config part on the beginning of the script, where I could specify how to write chords. Thanks in advance for any help.

[kosirm]

Yesterday I've seen Italian notation and it is like this: Do Re Mi Fa ... and minors are noted with minus like this: Do- Re- Mi- Fa- ...