Support do-re-me for incipits, incipit searching

Project:Hymnary
Component:Code
Category:feature request
Priority:minor
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:postponed
Description

Incipits are stored in the database in Oxford (1234567) format. Someone has suggested that do-re-me format is also popular/important for searching and familiarity. We can add do-re-me support fairly easily:

1. on tune page, show the first few notes of the incipit in do-re-me form. E.g. "do do ti re fa sol fa re". I'm not sure what the right number of notes to show is -- whatever fits nicely on one line, but at least 7 or so?

2. in the search widget, detect strings of do-re-me and perform incipit search.

3. in the brief incipit search instructions which (should) appear once the incipit radio button is clicked, mention that you can use 123 or do-re-me format.

This task is low priority.

Comments

re-think incipits

We need to re-think handling of incipits now that we have XML files of many of the tunes.

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