Solar Fire wish list

[margherita]

I collected all the desiderata about SF for David Hernandez radio interview.
Someone wants to add something?

a) possibility to change astro-fonts from a list of installed fonts.
b) possibility to change terms as in Janus, because now from Almuten editor is very difficult.
c) general difficulty to use Almuten editor.
d) sizygy as chart point.
e) better primary directions calculation.
f) in the square chart, Arab numbers are not very beautiful, better Roman ones (I, II, III) in the case.
g) possibility to add user points - like stars- to the square chart.
h) aspects listed by orbs as in Janus.
i) user definition of peregrine planets -whether a planet is peregrine when it's not in it's sect triplicity, or whether it's peregrine when it's not in any of it's own triplicities (of sect, out-of-sect, participating).

Margherita
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[Astraea]

Oh, that almuten editor! Even Astrolabe admits how difficult it is to use.

Love your list of desiderata, Margherita - you've mentioned all the things I've longed for in Solar Fire. It doesn't seem to me that these additions would be difficult to implement, especially considering the high degree of sophistication they've built into so many of their modules. I've written to Esoteric Technologies a couple of times, asking them to make the program more user-friendly from the Hellenistic and traditional perspectives - hope someday they'll recognize the need.

[margherita]

[Adam]

Hi!

Kinda relevant to point 'h' on the list, I would be quite happy to see a customizable ephemeris as a chart object.
The current ephemeris is a pain to use and is not a part of whatever chart is opened. It should be though, but only as chart object (and/or in the reports). The concept of a separate ephemeris is otherwise okay, if we need to generate a generic ephemeris. Please-please add the ephemeris as an object that can be inserted.
As for your point 'a', fonts can be changed with a right mouse click on the chart and by selecting fonts. Or something similar, can't remember exactly though.

Adam

[margherita]

[Adam]

Fair enough indeed!

j) customizable ephemeris as chart object

Ah you mean the glyphs...Those can not be changed easily for sure, but I don't see the reason why they should be changed, in the first place. You can select color, size (if you edit the chart).. But okay, maybe it's a question of taste, however the glyphs for the planets are kinda same everywhere...

Adam

[margherita]

[Olivia]

If you have the second edition of The Tradition, Luis wrote an excellent summary of what we need in traditional astrological software.

[epurdue]

[margherita]

David replied me he will give the list to Madeleine with pleasure.

I will send him a second part by the end of the week, so we have already:

l) in the electional search, where it shows the date of the election, possibility to see the day of the week

m) ?

Margherita
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[Astraea]

I would like to see oriental/occidental notation of the planets listed in the tabulations.

[epurdue]

Man the Solar Fire folks are going to hate us.

[Birgit]

Thank you very much, Margherita,

I would like especially arabic parts to add in the chart as user points, and not as ringpoints. Ringpoints are not very handy.

Birgit

[Adam]

[Astraea]

What I would really like is for Solar Fire to have a traditional module, where options like house system, chart style, moieties, terms, etc. can be easily toggled from within the module (as is true of Janus). Right now, the options that Solar Fire does offer are scattered throughout the program and difficult to change. One or two separate customizable modules (what I'd really like is a module for traditional and another for Hellenistic astrology) would be lovely.