Why is no one using jTab for guitar chords?

Question

I was looking at this question and noticed that none of the answers by four high-rep regulars uses the jTab Custom Chord Notation feature to show the chord and fingering. Instead there are notations like:

(from low E to high e): 8 X 8 9 10 10

and

(1, x, 1, 2, 3, x)

and

554577

followed by comments like:

How exactly would you finger 554577?

which could of course be easily shown using jTab Custom Chord Notation.

Is there a specific reason we're not using jTab chords?

Answer 1

I have used jTab for both chords and tablature on several of my answers in the past. Often there is some idiosyncracy that makes it a little bit frustrating, but the main pain point for me is that I only use it when I answer questions here, which means that I always have to either look at a reference or at one of my old answers to remember how to use it. My suspicion is that many users who might use jTab for answers may feel that it is more trouble than it is worth to relearn the syntax and idiosyncracies for the occasional answer that might benefit from its use.

Answer 2

I don't use it because it won't render in real-time when I'm entering an answer. That means repeatedly saving the post and reopening to edit. jTab has a learning curve and not being able to do WYSIWYG editing makes that learning curve too much for me to bother with.

Not when I can plaintext an answer or just take pen to paper and take a photo of it.

Answer 3

So my first reason for not using it was just... not knowing the syntax.

Second reason was - I couldn't find in the docs how to get chord symbols showing without fingering suggestions - but @Your Uncle Bob helped me with that - thanks.

So my final reason is - it doesn't seem to want to show things starting from the nut:

This from How to play a D major chord lower than the open E major chord on guitar?.

If anyone can help with that, I could be a convert!