This is admittedly off-topic, but I thought it was pretty cool and would interest some users here. I’m preparing some Dorico lead sheets and piano scores for a big project, but I did the chord charts in InDesign. We are offering every song in multiple keys, so a colleague helped me write a script to automatically transpose the keys in the chart (it still requires a little spacing afterwards):
I know it’s a little niche, but if anyone wants to use it, it’s here. You’re welcome to modify, rename, whatever.
dankreider.zip (5.5 KB)
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This is amazing, thank you very much! I, for one, didn’t know this was possible in InDesign.
Does one have to use a certain paragraph/character style for the chord symbols in order for the script to recognize them? Could you possibly provide an example InDesign document here?
Yes, there is a specified paragraph style (I think it’s called “Chord Symbol font”), but its name can be easily edited in the Java script. I can’t share the InDesign document because it’s under copyright. I’m not skilled at JS but I found it very easy to understand and modify if needed.
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Dan… very cool! Thanks for sharing. However, don’t forget to change it in the upper right corner of the header.
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