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ChordPro 0.977 released 2 #informational

A quick bugfix release to fix some bugs in 0.975 and 0.976. # This is the biggest release in the history of this program If it breaks something please report to the [User community](https://groups.io/

A quick bugfix release to fix some bugs in 0.975 and 0.976. # This is the biggest release in the history of this program If it breaks something please report to the [User community](https://groups.io/g/ChordPro) or file an issue in the tracker. ### ChordPro syntax * Support Pango Markup language. * Add basic support for annotations. * Add directives start/end_of_verse/bridge and short forms. ### ChordPro functionality * Add PDF outlines (bookmarks). * Add CSV columns for sorttitle artist composer collection key year. * Revamp table of contens (finally). * Remove section handling (we now have labels). * Allow ~ expansion in file names. * Allow relaxed parsing of chords (root name + arbitrary). * Allow parsing of notes (chords with only a lc root name). * (Wx) Show filename in window title. * (Wx) Show asterisk if file is modified. ### ChordPro configuration * Add split marker to be inserted between text phrases when the chord is wider than the phrase. * Add settings.suppress-empty-lyrics to suppress blank lyrics lines. * Add display property to chords to control the way they are displayed. * Add guitar-br.json with Brandt-Roemer compliant chord symbols. * Add meta variable songindex. * Add metadata sorttitle. * Add config settings for HTML backend. * Add font properties in fontconfig settings. * Add settings for chordnames and notenames. ### Bugfixes * Fix interpretation of directives and markup in tab sections. * Fix bug where some command line arguments did not properly support utf8. * Fix handling of {chorus: label}. * Fix problem where using a {chord} directive before any song lines would crash. * Fix problem where the tag of a grid was ignored. * Do not indent chorus labels when chorus indenting (issue #81). ### Miscellaneous * Use Text::Layout to support Pango Markup language. * Use File::LoadLines. * New install kits for Windows and Linux based on ppl by Oliver Betz. You can find them on the [GitHub release page](https://github.com/ChordPro/chordpro/releases/tag/R0_976). * Upgrade requirement for PDF::API2 to 2.035, Font::TTF to 1.05, Text::Layout to 0.014. * Packaged version no longer loads default config from chordpro.json. It is now really built-in. * Change CHANGES to Changes.

By Johan Vromans ·

Denoting minor key in the key directive 5 #ChordPro

I'm wondering if/how to denote a minor key in the {key: } directive I've tried {key: Am}, but that was flagged as incorrect, so I'm wondering if there is something else I could try

By Mike Dean ·

Correct ChordPro directive for a URL to a webpage 6 #ChordPro

Hi, I was wondering if there is there a ChordPro directive to add a website link inside a song file, for example if wanting to link to a bands website, or to a source for the chord sheet - and if ther

By neophytte ·

New to the Group and to ChordPro - Help Starting Out 14

Hello all. Complete newbie here. About 20 years ago I started transcribing songs from sheet music into an MS-Word document for my own personal songbook. It's grown to over 700 songs. About 8 years ago

By Alvin Tostig ·

Start songs on left page 5

Hi, I'm trying to format my "songbook" for printing it on regular A4 sheets, punching holes through 'em and put them into a regular binder. Most of the songs span more than one page, so I'd like them

By Alexander Rose ·

ABC support 10 #needinfo

I have made a proof-of-concept implementation of supprt for embedded ABC. While this looks promising, there are some issues that need to be dealt with. I need feedback from ABC users. First, to embed

By Johan Vromans ·

MacOS Configuration File 6 #mac #resolved

I've installed the new binary version of Chordpro 0.977, but it doesn't seem to be picking up my existing configuration file in ~/.config/chordpro/chordpro.json. Is there a way to configure the PDF ou

By funkydan2 ·

#linux #linux #resolved 5 #linux #resolved

I was working with ChordPro last week and everything was fine. However, today Perl complains about calling an undefined function: Undefined subroutine &File::LoadLines::croak called at /usr/local/shar

By several ·

They shoot horses, don't they? 10

That was the title of a movie many years ago, it was about a dance marathon, last couple dancing won. The title came from someone looking how the dancing couples were suffering so badly, it seemed eve

By Jeff Welty ·

Is there something like a \today directive? 4 #resolved

I would like to have a date when I compiled my pdf last time. My current solution is to have a separate version.cho file, where I manually update the date. I include version.cho in my files-to-compile

By several ·

Chordpro database manager, version 0.0000002 ;-) 17

Okay. A number of improvements. Help buttons, you can re-arrange the order of songs to be rendered in a PDF. UTF8 is now fully supported. A JSON string encapsulates the meta information about each fil

By Jeff Welty ·

Some fixes for A2CRD 7 #informational

The current release (0.977), does not work for chord lines like these: D Bm7sus2 Bm7 Sarah, please The reason is the logic requires *all* words on the line to be recognized as chords, and Bm7sus2 is n

By Jeff Welty ·

Database implementation

Hi Folks, Have been trying to find a way to get Filemaker Pro database to read Chordpro files. Has anyone attempted this? Thanks

By Rayco ·

Last update before Thanksgiving break. 4

Delete groups button in "Groups" Mode now actually does something. Figured how to have the file tree be totally collapsed on initialization Trim leading/trailing spaces in ChordPro directives Some mor

By Jeff Welty ·

*.pro files archive manager? 18 #needinfo

I have been looking (with no success) for an application (linux) to manage my chordpro files other than having them scattered in various subdirectories by artist or composer. Does anyone know of somet

By Jeff Welty ·

New files 7

These will work better. Sorry folks. Grab the attachments to this message (now appropriately named ...ChordPro... instead of ...Chordpro...)

By Jeff Welty ·

Chord diagrams for two instruments? 5

Is it possible to display chord diagrams for two instruments? For instance, a soprano ukulele and guitar? Or a soprano ukulele and baritone ukulele? Thanks!

By several ·

How not to have empty pages inserted? 3 #resolved

Hi, First, thanks for the great software. I have just installed the newest version Chordpro and noticed that the songs start on the left page and empty pages are automatically inserted. Unfortunately

By several ·

No UI in new Windows install 3 #windows

I've been using a legacy version of ChordPro since the early 2000's, bought my license in 2008. My current version 3.52 is still running on a Windows 10 machine where I installed it in 2016. But the n

By lrlawson3@... ·

PDF title formatting 4 #ChordPro

I am running into an issue with long titles in `pdf.formats`. Is there anyway to force them to wrap? When an array is given to `pdf.formats.title.title` the strings overflow each other.

By mteran@... ·