Chord (software)

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Stable release 3.5 / 1994 April License GPL		Operating system Cross-platform
Developer(s) Martin Leclerc, Mario Dorion Type staffless lead sheet typesetting Website www.harmony-central.com

Chord is software for creating staffless lead sheets (also known as chord charts) in PostScript format. Chord was developed by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion. This project has been inactive for several years. It was forked in 2007 to a project called Chordii (pronounced as chord-ee-ee)[1].

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 an 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

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On October 25, 2007, Chord was forked since development had been stalled for at least ten years. The new project has been named Chordii and is still under active development.

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ChordPro Buddy: ChordPro for OSX

SongChordCharts a chord pro viewer editor

References

Chord (software) Wikipedia

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