Chord (software)
Chord is software for creating stafless lead sheets (also known as chord charts) in PostScript format.
Features
- command-line interface
- generates fingering diagrams for guitar
- ChoPro/Chordpro plain text file format
- automated chord transposition
- customizable font sizes
- multiple columns per page
- multiple logical pages per physical page
- songbook creation: typeset multiple songs with page numbers and a table of contents
Example Code
{title:Wonderful Time}
{subtitle:Words and Music (C) 2007 Adam Monsen}
[C]Every[G]body, [F]let's have a wonderful time,
[C]Take it [G]slowly, [F]while you're feelin' fine
[C]One strange [E7]day shouldn't [F]take you by surprise
[C]But all right, [G]hey hey, [F]hey hey
{start_of_chorus}
[C]Ahhh [Am]ahhh [G]ahhh
[C]Ahhh [Am]ahhh [G]ahhh
{end_of_chorus}
[F]Wonderful [C]time
See also
- Typesetting
- List of document markup languages
- Prettyprint
Fork
On October 25, 2007, Chord was forked since development had been stalled for at least ten years. The new project has been tentatively named Chordie and recently released version 4.0.
External links
- Download Chord
- Chordie ChoPro-formatted music search engine
- How to embed ChordPro-formatted song sheets into a wiki page
- ChoPro directives
- Chordpro format
- Songbook, other software for displaying and editing stafless lead sheets
- Online ChordPro-to-HTML converter
- Songsheet Generator