Provided by: chordii_4.5.3+repack-0.2_amd64 
NAME
chordii - produce a professional looking PostScript sheet-music from an ascii file
containing lyrics and chords information.
SYNOPSIS
chordii [OPTIONS] FILE [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
chordii produces a postscript document from a lyrics file containing chord indications and
chorus delimiters. The document produced contains the lyrics of a song, with the guitar
chords appearing above the right words. A representation of all chords used in the song is
printed at the bottom of the last page.
Extensive documentation can be found in the chordii User Guide, available from the Chordii
download page ⟨http://sf.net/projects/chordii/files⟩.
OPTIONS
chordii takes both long options, starting with --, and short options starting with a
single -, according to the getopt_long(3) conventions.
--about -A
Will print the "About Chordii..." message.
--single-space -a
Automatically single spaces lines that have no chords.
--chord-size=CHORD_FONT_SIZE -c
Sets the size, in points, of the font used to display chords to the specified
integer value.
--chord-font=CHORD_FONT -C
Sets the font used to print chords to the specified name. That name must be known
to your PostScript Interpreter.
--dump-chords-text -d
Generates a text chord chart of all internally known chords as well as chords
defined in the .chordrc file. Chords defined in the .chordrc file are identified
with the "(local)" caption. The printout is suitable for input to the .chordrc
file.
--dump-chords -D
Generates a PostScript chord chart of all internally known chords as well as
chords defined in the .chordrc file. Chords defined in the .chordrc file are
identified with a small asterisk after the chord grid.
--no-chord-grids -G
Disable printing of the chord grids for the whole input file(s). The effect can be
disable for any particular song by the usage of the grid or g directive.
--no-easy-chord-grids -g
Disable printing of grids for "easy" chords. Whether a builtin chord is easy or
not has been arbitrarily decided by the authors. The general rule was that any
chord in its major, minor, 7th or minor 7th was "easy" while everything else
(maj7, aug, dim, sus, etc...) was "difficult". All chords defined in the .chordrc
file or in the input file are defined as "difficult".
--chord-grids-sorted -S
Prints the chord grids in alphabetical order. Default is to print in the order
they appear in the song.
--help -h
Prints a short options summary.
--toc -i
Generates a table of contents with the song titles and page numbers. It implies
page numbering through the document. Index pages are not numbered.
--lyrics-only -l
Prints only the lyrics of the song.
--even-pages-number-left -L
Places the odd and even page numbers in the lower right and left corners
respectively (for two-sided output). The default is all page numbers on the right.
--output=FILE -o
Sends PostScript output to FILE.
--start-page-number=FIRST_PAGE -p
Numbers the pages consecutively starting with first_page (e.g. 1). Without this
option, each song restarts the page numbering at 1, and page numbers are only put
on subsequent pages of multiple page songs.
--page-size=PAPER_SIZE -P
Specifies the paper size, "us", "letter", "a4" or "a5". Default is "a4".
--chord-grid-size=GRID_SIZE -s
Sets the size of the chord grids.
--text-size=TEXT_SIZE -t
Sets the size, in points, of the font used to display the lyrics to the specified
integer value. The title line is displayed using that point size + 5. The subtitle
is displayed using that point size - 2. The tablature is displayed using this
point size - 2.
--text-font=TEXT_FONT -T
Sets the font used to print text to the specified name. That name must be known to
your PostScript Interpreter.
--version -V
Prints version and patch level.
--vertical-space=EXTRA_SPACE -w
Adds extra vertical space between the lines to improve readability.
--transpose=SEMITONES -x
Sets up transposition to that number of semitones. Can not be zero. All chord
names must be build in the following way in order to be recognized:
{note-name}[#|b][^/]* [ '/' {note-name}[#|b][^/]* ]
That is, a valid note name, possibly followed by '#' or 'b', followed by other
modifier ('7', 'm', etc...). Many such construct can make up a chord name, as long
as they are separated by '/'.
{note-name} must appear in the list 'A','B','C','D','E','F','G'.
--2-up -2
Prints two logical pages per physical page.
--4-up -4
Prints four logical pages per physical page.
KEYWORDS
A line starting with a '#' is interpreted as a comment, and generates no output. (although
all your comments are automatically mailed to the authors, and we read them at parties...)
Directives that appear between curly brackets ('{' and '}') have a special meaning. They
must be alone on a line. Blanks before the opening bracket and after the closing bracket
are not significant. Directives suffixed by a colon require arguments.
Blanks inside a directive are not significant (except inside one of the comments
directives).
Supported directives are:
titles: TYPE
Selects the placement of the titles. Currently supported are left and center
(default).
start_of_chorus or soc
which indicates the start of a chorus (yep). The complete chorus will be
highlighted by a change bar, to be easily located by the player.
end_of_chorus or eoc
marks the end of the chorus
comment: or c:
will call the printing of the rest of the line, highlighted by a grey box (Useful
to call a chorus, for example)
comment_italic: or ci:
will print the comment in an italic font ... well not really. It will print the
comment in the font used for printing chord names (which is normally italic unless
you specified a different chord_font).
comment_box: or cb:
will print the comment inside a bounding box.
new_song or ns
marks the beginning of a new song. It enables you to put multiple songs in one
file. It is not required at the beginning of the file.
title: or t:
specifies the title of the song. It will appear centered at the top of the first
page, and at the bottom of every other page, accompanied there by the page number,
within the current song.
subtitle: or st:
specifies a string to be printed right below the title. Many subtitles can be
specified
define: NAME base-fret OFFSET frets STR1...STR6
defines a new chord called NAME.
Example for a 6-string guitar:
{define Ab+: base-fret 1 frets x x 2 1 1 0}
The keyword "base-fret" indicates that the number that follows (OFFSET) is the
first fret that is to be displayed when representing the way this chord is played.
The keyword "frets" then appears and is followed by 6 values. These values are the
fret number [ 1 to n ] for each string [STR1 to STR6] and are RELATIVE to the
offset. A value of "-", "X" or "x" indicates a string that is not played.
Keywords "base-fret" and "frets" are MANDATORY.
A value of 0 for a given string means it is to be played open, and will be marked
by a small open circle above the string in the grid. The strings are numbered in
ascending order of tonality, starting on the low E (the top string). On output, a
chord defined in the user's .chordrc file will have a small asterisk near its
grid, a chord defined in a song will have two small asterixes.
At the beginning of every song, the default chords are re-loaded and the user's
.chordrc file is re-read. Chord definition of new chords inside the text of a song
are only valid for that song.
The syntax of a {define} directive has been modified in version 3.5. Chordii will
attempt to recognize an old-format {define} and will accept it. It will, though,
print a warning inviting you to modify your input file to use the new syntax (the
exact {define} entry to use is provided as an example).
pagetype: TYPE
Selects the page type. Currently supported page types are a4 and letter.
This directive may only occur in the .chordrc file.
textfont: POSTSCRIPT_FONT
same as -T command option
textsize: N
same as -t command option
chordfont: POSTSCRIPT_FONT
same as -C command option
chordsize: N
same as -c command option
no_grid or ng
will disable printing of the chord grids for the current song.
grid or g
will enable the printing of the chord grids for the current song (subject to the
limitation caused by the usage of the -g option). This directive will overide the
runtime -G option for the current song.
new_page or np
will force a logical page break (which will obviously turn out to be a physical
page break if you are not in either 2-up or 4-up mode).
new_physical_page or npp
will force a physical page break (in any mode).
start_of_tab or sot
will cause chord to use a monospace (ie: non-proportional) font for the printing
of text. This can be used to enter 'tab' information where character positioning
is crucial. The Courier font is used with a smaller point-size than the rest of
the text.
end_of_tab or eot
will stop using monospace font. The effect is implicit at the end of a song.
columns: N or col: N
specifies the number of columns on the pages of the current song.
column_break or colb
forces a column break. The next line of the song will appear in the next available
column, at the same height as the last "columns" statement if still on the same
page, or at the top of the page otherwise.
FILES
$HOME/.chordrc
Initial directives re-read after each song.
NOTES
Run time options override settings from your .chordrc file. So the assignement sequence
of, for instance, the text size, will be: system default, .chordrc, run-time option, and
finally from within the song itself.
All keywords are case independent.
BUGS
Chordii will not wrap long lines around the right margin.
White space is not inserted inside the text line, even if white space is inserted in the
"chord" line above the text. The net effect is that chord names can appear further down
the line than what was intended. This is a side effect from fixing an old "bug" that
caused the chord names to overlap. This bug will only manifest itself if you have lots of
chord but little text. Inserting white space in the text is a good workaround.
In 2-up mode, if page-numbering is invoked on a document that has an odd number of page,
the page number for the last page will be printed at the bottom right of the virtual page
instead of the bottom right of the physical page.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C)2008 The Chordii Project
Copyright (C)1990-91-92-93 by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion
AUTHORS
Johan Vromans ⟨jvromans@squirrel.nl⟩
Martin Leclerc ⟨Martin.Leclerc@Sun.COM⟩ *** DEFUNCT ***
and Mario Dorion ⟨Mario.Dorion@Sun.COM⟩ *** DEFUNCT ***
CONTRIBUTORS
Steve Putz ⟨putz@parc.xerox.com⟩
Jim Gerland ⟨GERLAND@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu⟩
Leo Bicknell ⟨ab147@freenet.acsu.buffalo.edu⟩