The official site for the ChordPro file format and its reference implementation Here you can find all the information and tools you need to embrace this format to enhance your musical notations.

Welcome to ChordPro! This is the official site for ChordPro, a simple text format for the notation of lyrics with chords. ChordPro 6: The File Format Specification Overview ChordPro Directives ChordPro …

Besides lyrics with chords, the ChordPro file contains directives, lines that start with { and end with }. The directives play an important part in how the printed output will look like.

Many ChordPro implementations (formatters) provide chord diagrams at the end of a song, using a built-in list of known chords and fingerings. Clearly, this can only work when the chords in the ChordPro …

ChordPro 6.07 Cheat Sheet General ChordPro input is a file containing song lyrics, chords and annotations. Chords are placed between brackets [ and ]. Annotations are placed between bracket …

ChordPro automatically detects whether the input files are in legacy crd format and if so, internally converts the data to ChordPro (cho format) before processing.

Chord or ChordPro is the name of a simple text format for the notation of lyrics with chords. Although primarily intended for guitarists, it can be used for all kinds of musical purposes.

For a good understanding it is important to know that ChordPro (the program) is basically a file transformation program. It reads a file containing lyrics and chords according to the ChordPro File …

The ChordPro reference implementation is both a graphical application, as well a powerful command line program written in the Perl programming environment. The code is completely Open Source and …

ChordPro directives are used to control the appearance of the printed output. They define meta-data like titles, add new chords, control page and column breaks.