ChordPro generates professional-looking sheet music from a text file containing the lyrics of one or many songs with chord information.
Check https://www.chordpro.org/chordpro/chordpro-installation for installation instructions
and execute chordpro --help for an overview about the avalable options.
This program provides support for ChordPro version 6.
It supports almost all features of Chordii, and a lot more,
like native PDF generation, Unicode input and fully customizable layout, fonts and sizes.
Prominent features of ChordPro 6 are Pango style text markup, annotations,
and a more powerful way of assigning typefaces to layout items.
ChordPro is a rewrite of Chordii.
Why a rewrite?
Chordii was the de facto reference implementation of the ChordPro file format standard version 4.
ChordPro version 5 added a number of new features, 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, we decided to create a new reference implementation from the ground up.
We chose a programming language that is flexible and very good at handling Unicode data.
And that is fun to program in.
