NAME

       a2crd - attempts the conversion of lyrics file into chordii input

SYNOPSIS

       a2crd [ options...] [ filename... ]

DESCRIPTION

       a2crd  reads  the lyrics of one songs from a file, and attempts to produce a output suitable for chordii.
       Chord names can appear above or below the lyrics.  a2crd will embed those names into the lyrics.

       The FAQ list of alt.guitar documents the way a ascii file should look, but this format is not  recognized
       by  everyone,  or  fully  enforced. Thus, it is impossible to modify chordii itself to read *any* type of
       ascii input and produce good result.  a2crd tries its best to to do the tedious conversion job.

       a2crd attempts to recognize mail/news headers, and comments them  out.   It  preserves  as  is  any  line
       starting with a '{', which would indicates a chordii command. It also preserves any lines starting with a
       '#'.

       a2crd prepends to the output the content of a file called $HOME/.a2crdsig, if it exists.

       The first line that is not a comment is assumed to be the title of the song. The nest lines until a blank
       one are assumed to be sub-titles.

OPTIONS

       -r ratio
               Sets  the  threshold  for  chordii  line  recognition.  a2crd looks at every line. If the ratio (
               space_characters / (non-space_characters) is greater than ratio, the line will be recognized as a
               chordii line, and its content will be merge with the next available text line. The  ratio  has  a
               initial value of 1. It is defined as a floating precision value.

       -D      Prints debugging information. For programmers only.

       -o filename
               Sends output to filename

       See Also
              chordii(l)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2008 The Chordii Project
       Copyright 1992 by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion

AUTHORS

       Martin Leclerc (martin.leclerc@canada.sun.com *** DEFUNCT ***)

Utilities                                           July 2009                                           a2crd(1)