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Thread #137114 Message #3134611
Posted By: PoppaGator
13-Apr-11 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: print guitar chord thingies on music
Subject: RE: print guitar chord thingies on music
Will your friend really need the diagrams, rather than just the (one- or two-letter) names of the chords?
I would think that she would know the shape of a "C" or an "Am"; if not, I don't see how she would have time to "read" the little dots on the chord diagrams. Maybe I'm wrong, and a quick glance would be enough to remind her how to make a "C" or "D" or "G7" or whatever.
Either way, you only have to do this to accommodate one person, so an ability to print multiple copies is not really necessary. The idea of having a little rubber-stamp made for each chord is interesting, and would do the trick, but the cost might be prohibitive.
The digital equivalent of a set of rubber-stamps would be a set of little graphics files ~ <.jpg>s or <.bmp>s, etc. Scan 'em in, size 'em appropriately, save them under their chord-names, and then -- in your Word document or whatever -- insert a line above each existing line of "dots" and simply , with wordspaces before and after, each plce that requries a chord symbol. The wordspaces can be in any type size you wish without affecting the size of the picture files; you'll need to be consistent, and will probably want to stick with the same size that's in effect for the rest of the document.