NAME
a2crd - attempts the conversion of lyrics file into chordii input
SYNOPSIS
a2crd [ options...] [ filename... ]
DESCRIPTION
a2crd reads the lyrics of one songs from a file, and attempts to
produce a output suitable for chordii. 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 chordii 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 chordii 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 chordii 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 chordii 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
chordii(l)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2008 The Chordii Project
Copyright 1992 by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion
AUTHORS
Martin Leclerc (martin.leclerc@canada.sun.com *** DEFUNCT ***)