a2crd
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Updated: December 1992
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NAME
a2crd - attempts the conversion of lyrics file into chord input
SYNOPSIS
a2crd
[ options...] [ filename... ]
DESCRIPTION
a2crd
reads the lyrics of one songs from a file, and attempts to produce
a output suitable for
chord.
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
chord
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
chord
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 chord 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 chord 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
chord(l)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1992 by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion
AUTHORS
Martin Leclerc
(martin.leclerc@canada.sun.com)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- See Also
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- COPYRIGHT
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- AUTHORS
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