Chord (software)

Chord
Developer(s) Martin Leclerc, Mario Dorion
Stable release
3.5 / 1994 April
Operating system Cross-platform
Type staffless lead sheet typesetting
License GPL
Website www.harmony-central.com

Chord is software for creating staffless lead sheets (also known as chord charts) in PostScript format. Chord was developed by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion. This project has been inactive for several years. It was forked in 2007 to a project called Chordii (pronounced as chord-ee-ee).

Features

Example code

{title:Wonderful Time}
{subtitle:Words an Music (C) 2007 Adam Monsen}

[C]Every[G]body, [F]let's have a wonderful time,
[C]Take it [G]slowly, [F]while you're feelin' fine
[C]One strange [E7]day shouldn't [F]take you by surprise
[C]But all right, [G]hey hey, [F]hey hey

{start_of_chorus}
[C]Ahhh [Am]ahhh [G]ahhh
[C]Ahhh [Am]ahhh [G]ahhh
{end_of_chorus}

[F]Wonderful [C]time

See also

Fork

On October 25, 2007, Chord was forked since development had been stalled for at least ten years. The new project has been named Chordii and is still under active development.

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