💡 RFC: Chord Style Directive

[isaiahdahl]

Background & Motivation

We need a directive that allows us to set the chord style independent from the key.

Even though when a chart is in numbers or numerals, technically that chart can be used in any key. We still want to be able to use the store the key directive because there could be other things that need to know the key of the song. Like a track or pad.

The key selector in the studio editor will look something like this:

Where Chord Style is something you can select independent from key.

In PraiseCharts. We just treat Numbers & Numerals as a key and have it as an option in the key dropdown. But continuing with that solution would limit us down the road if we wanted to add things to the studio that need a key.

Proposed Solution

Possible solutions

title: Rattle!
key: Eb

Intro (5x)
Eb5 / / / | / / / / |

Verse 1
Eb                   Ebsus         Eb
Saturday was silent, surely it was through

const song = song.setChordStyle('numbers');

title: Rattle!
key: Eb
chord_style: numbers

Intro (5x)
15 / / / | / / / / |

Verse 1
1                    1sus          1
Saturday was silent, surely it was through

I'd want it so that chord_style is one of those metadata's that you don't really change manually in the text, and through a function which would then set the chord_style. Like how you wouldn't change the key of the song by changing the key metadata, but by using a transpose or key selector button which then in turn changes/updates the metadata.

Calling setChordStyle() would set the metadata for chord_style and 'transpose' the whole chart into a numbers chart. BUt this could happen independent of the key: directive.