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a2crd(l) Misc. Reference Manual Pages a2crd(l)
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
chord(l)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1992 by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion
AUTHORS
Martin Leclerc (martin.leclerc@canada.sun.com)