[itsme]

A ChordGrid has two columns left and right of the grid. They are intended to contain comment that shall not be transposed.
   
Attachment ThoseWereTheDays_Gm_SHe_ABC.pdf shows the same song created by the ChordPro reference implementation.

[Zubersoft]

Oh interesting - I didn't know the text in the margins shouldn't be transposed. Easy enough change I think.

Thanks,
Mike

[sciurius]

The margins are like comments. 'A' is a letter A, [A] a (transposable) chord name A.

[itsme]

Thanks Johan for additional clarification

[itsme]

Sciurius reported a difference between MobileSheets, see https://groups.io/g/ChordPro/topic/111384559:

The margin chords are treated as comments. The chords are rendered with the comment font. This is intentional, so these look the same:

Code:

{comment: From A to [B] to C}
{comment: From A to B to C}

(except that the 1st B may be transposed).
MSPro renders these like chords, using the chord font.

I prefer the way MobileSheets renders it and would accept if it is different. So the comment "(B) in E" should look the same as a normal comment and in the first column of the grid.
   

[Zubersoft]

So it's a little unclear to me - do you want me to change it so that the comments are rendered using the same setting as a {comment:}, or are you saying you don't want me to change anything? Also, should I use the grid text size setting for the comments or switch that to use the lyrics text size, which is normally what would be used for a comment? My current plan is to switch to using the same font that I would use for a {comment} but modify the text size to match that of the grid text size setting so it matches the other parts of the chord grid.

Thanks,
Mike

[itsme]

Sorry if I was unclear.

- using the same font that I would use for a {comment}
That's how Sciurius renders chords in comments in the reference implementation - so this is the most compatible way. That's what I'm usually asking for. 
In case of chords in comments I would prefer to keep it as you currently do it in {comment sections: render chords like in chords & lyrics sections. I also posted in https://groups.io/g/ChordPro/topic/111384559 that this would be my preferred style.

- should I use the grid text size setting for the comments
Definitely yes. The font size of comments within grids should be the same as the chords.

Here's how I personally would prefer it to look, transposed from A to G, source attached
   

But I'm still discussing the topic with Sciurius in the post mentioned above

[Zubersoft]

Rendering the chords in comments separately from the rest of the text in chord grid margins is definitely going to lead to some difficulty. I also don't support pango markup in comments in chord grids at the moment, so that's going to require even more changes. Then I would have to add more code to break up labels in the margins into parts (regular text + chords) and render each of those separately. So I would potentially need to change quite a bit of code.

Mike

[sciurius]

I bear with you... These are the hoops I need to jump through almost daily

[Zubersoft]

I've modified the code to at least utilize the pango markup syntax in the grid comments, and they are rendered with the same italic font as comments. I won't be able to tackle rendering chords differently for a while, as I really need to start focusing on other requests.

Mike

[itsme]

Thank you, Mike. I fully agree, that there are more important topics than the formatting of chords in comments.
Could you please make a version available that contains the latest fixes? Thanks.

[Zubersoft]

I'm working on it - just making the same changes on Windows and iOS so I can get the update released.

Mike