NAME

    App::Music::ChordPro - A lyrics and chords formatting program

DESCRIPTION

    ChordPro will read a text file containing the lyrics of one or many songs
    plus chord information. ChordPro will then generate a photo-ready,
    professional looking, impress-your-friends sheet-music suitable for
    printing on your nearest printer.

    To learn more about ChordPro, look for the man page or do "chordpro
    --help" for the list of options.

    ChordPro is a rewrite of the Chordii program, see
    <http://www.chordii.org>.

    For more information about ChordPro, see <http://www.chordpro.org>.

MOTIVATION

    Why a rewrite of Chordii?

    Chordii is the de facto reference implementation of the ChordPro file
    format standard. It implements ChordPro version 4.

    ChordPro version 5 adds a number of new features, and this was pushing the
    limits of the very old program. Unicode support would have been very hard
    to add, and the whole program centered around PostScript generation, while
    nowadays PDF would be a much better alternative.

    So I decided to create a new reference implementation from the ground up.
    I chose a programming language that is flexible and very good at handling
    Unicode data. And that is fun to program in.

CURRENT STATUS

    This program provides alpha support for ChordPro version 5. It supports
    most of the features of Chordii, and a lot more:

    * Native PDF generation.

    * Unicode support (all input is UTF8).

    * User defined chords and tunings, not limited to 6 strings.

    * Support for external TrueType and OpenType fonts.

    * Font kerning (with external fonts).

    * Fully customizable layout, fonts and sizes.

    * Customizable backends for PDF, ChordPro, LilyPond*, LaTeX* and HTML*.
      (* = under development)

LICENSE

    Copyright (C) 2010,2016 Johan Vromans,

    This module is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.