Draw the clamp on guitar chord diagram with GChords

Question

I'm trying to generate guitar chords, everything is fine until I arrived to Do#m. Here is my snippet:
begin{document}
mediumchords
chords{
  chord{4}{x,f1p1,f3p3,f4p3,f2p2,f1p1}{Do#m (C#m)}
}
end{document}

Which outputs:

on this case, ideally, a bar should go from the finger 1 string 1 to finger 1 string 5.
How can I achieve that?

Don Hosek · Answer

gchords doesn't have any functionality to distinguish barre chords. It looks like it's possible with musixguit but the documentation is in German only. This answer includes an example of producing a chord with the barre notated although it's not a partial barre as requested and I'm unsure if any existing package will do this out of the box. That said, it's probably a good starting point for being able to get the desired result.
Edit: Doing a bit more digging, it looks like the best package for the job is chordbox which does support partial barres. A good starting place for seeing what other options are available is here.

Draw the clamp on guitar chord diagram with GChords

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