I think
most people (safely) assume that saying such a thing won’t cause this response and some might say it because they find it a funny thing to say. I can imagine some people in my close circle of friends/family that might say it, but if they’ll find that it caused such a disastrous situation they will feel very bad…
What you suggested lastly is possible, most work will be coming up with a dumbed down editor for such a font. Per each ligature, the user should be able to provide a SVG(?) and control its y-offset and scale (currently I use the same values for all the ligatures).
DM me at Twitter (@verydutzi) if you want to talk about it, I’d be happy to!
Another thing about these chords ligatures is that they are “zero-width”. When you type /a/ it will get replaced with a the ligature for the A chords, which is a the shape of “A”, above the line (translateY: -150%), and report “advanceWidth: 0”, so the next character shares the same X position.
Now, if you want to add m6 to it, I technically cannot support rendering it “to the right of the A”, since its width was set to 0.
So I need to pack the font itself with both the A and the Am6 ligatures…
I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org
Not sure why you got downvoted as well, that was very educating.
I never studied music theory, but I play guitar for >20 years, so I just picked some library I found that listed a few common chords, and put it there.
I never (knowingly) played a D6, so didn’t know to look for that one in particular :)
I’ll add the option extend the list, and see if I can find a better list of defaults.
The thing about those ligatures is that each one adds a bit to the font’s weight, they’re not referencing one another - it’s a lot of duplicated “paths” (and IIRC I can define up to 65,536 in total).
