Chord (software)

Chord

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

Free software portal

• 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 named Chordii and is still under active development.

External links

• Chordii Chordii Home page
• Java code for Chord 4.0
• Chordie ChoPro-formatted music search engine
• How to embed ChordPro-formatted song sheets into a wiki page
• ChoPro directives
• ChrodPro Songbook (free iOs app)
• Chordpro format
• Songbook, other software for displaying and editing stafless lead sheets
• Online ChordPro-to-HTML converter
• Songsheet Generator
• Songpress - Il Canzonatore
• ChordSmith: Free Java program to transpose chords in song sheets
• ChordPro Buddy: ChordPro for OSX