The ChordPro (also known as Chord) is an ASCII text file format for transcribing songs with chords and lyrics.
The format was originally used for guitar, but is used for variety of other string instruments, such as ukulele, bass guitar or mandolin.
Although this format is legible as it is, there are many popular programs for displaying, transposing and printing.
Files in this format often have extensions such as .crd, .pro or .cho.
Video ChordPro
Basic Input Format
ChordPro file format contains chords in square brackets within song lyrics:
Programs convert this format to:
Output often significantly varies by program, software platform, output media etc.
Chords
Chords are delimited by square brackets. If the chord name follows a known system it can be properly interpreted by a program. Non-standard names are allowed.
Directives
ChordPro format allows users to mark sections of a song, such as Title, Subtitle, Key, Time, Chorus etc through special keywords enclosed by { and } parenthesis called directives. Some directives change the output, while others are not displayed and are primarily used to keep track of meta-data.
Maps ChordPro
History
In June 1991 Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion created the Chord program and source file notation format. For several years there was no active development of the software. In 2007 Johan Vromans and Adam Monsen revived the project under a new name Chordii, supporting ChordPro format vesion 4. In 2015 Johan Vromans started yet another re-write of the tool and called it ChordPro. This release supports ChordPro format version 5 and is in active development.
References
External links
- ChordPro.org -- main website for the format.
- ChordPro Project on GitHub
- User Forum on Google Groups
- Chordii -- a legacy release of Chord utility, supporting version 4.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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