Chord (software)

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Chord
Developed by Martin Leclerc, Mario Dorion
Latest release 3.5 / 1994 April 3
OS Cross-platform
Genre stafless lead sheet typesetting
License GPL
Website www.harmony-central.com

Chord is software for creating stafless lead sheets (also known as chord charts) in PostScript format.


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[edit] 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


[edit] 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

[edit] See also

Free software Portal

[edit] 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.

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